LEADER 04867nam 2200685 450 001 9910791659803321 005 20230508051222.0 010 $a1-4426-9669-9 010 $a1-4426-8669-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442696693 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054080 035 $a(OCoLC)707712909 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442577 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486569 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12158311 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486569 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449719 035 $a(PQKB)10182972 035 $a(CEL)435080 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226216 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272789 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672891 035 $a(DE-B1597)464112 035 $a(OCoLC)944176525 035 $a(OCoLC)999374170 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442696693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672891 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258542 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104311 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054080 100 $a20160923h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe poetics of Dante's Paradiso /$fMassimo Verdicchio 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4426-4119-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHeaven of the Moon: Grammar (II-IV) -- Heaven of Mercury: Dialectrics (V-VII) -- Heaven of Venus: Rhetoric (VIII-IX) -- Heaven of the Sun: Arithmetic (X-XIV) -- Heaven of Mars: Music (XV-XVII) -- Heaven of Jupiter: Geometry (XVIII -XX) -- Heaven of Saturn: Astronomy (XXI-XXII) -- Fixed Stars: Physics and Metaphysics (XXIV-XXVII) -- Primum Mobile: Moral Philosophy (XXVII-XXIX) -- Empyrean: Theology (XXX-XXXIII). 330 8 $a"In this book, Verdicchio provides a canto-by-canto analysis of Paradiso. He maintains that the cantica can allegorically be seen as a commentary on the political and religious establishment, framed as the punitive action of the DXV announced at the end of Purgatorio, denouncing the illicit and destructive alliance between the House of Anjou and the Church. Verdicchio focuses on the relationship that Dante establishes among the ten heavens, into which the poet divides the cantica and their equivalent in the Arts and Sciences of the Trivium and Quadrivium, as outlined in the Convivio. This approach provides the key to interpreting the cantos and the discourse of the inhabitants of Paradise who appear, on the surface, blameless. However, it is the earthly and human side of the blessed souls that captures Dante's attention, and this dichotomy is revealed in his characterization of the heavens. Poetic allegory and irony are the two principal modes of this cantica, and the source of much of its comedic complexity. As one of the characters puts it, "in Heaven we do not repent but we smile." A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso demonstrates that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal subversive undercurrents and a subtle irony, employed to deliver a critique of the Church and Empire of his own time"--Jacket. 330 1 $a"In the world of Dante scholarship, there is a real need for studies such as The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso, which challenge our notions of the principal souls of the Paradiso. Rooted in a close analysis of the poem, Massimo Verdicchio's intelligent interpretation is supported by relevant textual evidence and provides an important counterpoint to the canonical readings of the cantica." "Traditional readings of Dante's Paradiso have largely considered this third cantica of the Commedia as a poem apart. It deals with those blessed souls in Paradise who are free of sin and beyond punishment, in contrast to the sinners in the previous two cantica, and is thus no longer based on the principle of contrapasso. At the literal level this is true in that all the characters one encounters are either those who have been saved, religious leaders, or saints. However, at the allegorical level, as Massimo Verdicchio argues in The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso, the blessed souls still have something to hide, something shameful in their past earthly life, which is revealed nonetheless." 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aHeaven in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHeaven in literature. 676 $a851/.1 700 $aVerdicchio$b Massimo$f1945-$0224275 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791659803321 996 $aThe poetics of Dante's Paradiso$93744424 997 $aUNINA