Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition: Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780367884413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 186 str.

Mary Watt

Opis

The first part of this study explores the extent to which Dante’s Divine Comedy contributed to Christopher Columbus’s perception of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he called an ‘other world.’ The second considers how Italian writers and artists of the late Renaissance and Counter Reformation received the news of th

Spis treści

Introduction

Acknowledgements

1 Columbus’s Journey to the End of the World

2 The New Jerusalem and the End of Time

3 Earthly Paradise and the Westward Trajectory

4 “Beyond the Curve of the Sea”: Columbus and Dante

5 Ulysses, Columbus and Human Folly

6 Columbus, Aeneas and Paul

7 An Italian Apostle to the New World

8 Trouble in Paradise: Ariosto, Fracastoro and Gambara

9 Tasso, Stella and the Apotheosis of Columbus

10 Chiabrera, Stigliani and a World Turned Inside Out

Epilogue

Index

O autorze

Mary Alexandra Watt is an Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, USA.