One of the greatest works of world literature, Dante Alighieri s "The Divine Comedy "has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until now, students of the "Inferno "have lacked a suitable resource to guide their reading.
Welcome to "Danteworlds," the first substantial guide to the "Inferno" in English. Guy P. Raffa takes readers on a geographic journey through Dante s underworld circle by circle from the Dark Wood down to the ninth circle of Hell in much the same way Dante and Virgil proceed...

One of the greatest works of world literature, Dante Alighieri s The Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until now, students of the Inferno have lacked a suitable resource to guide their reading.
Welcome to Danteworlds, the first substantial guide to the Inferno in English. Guy P. Raffa takes readers on a geographic journey through Dante s underworld circle by circle from the Dark Wood down to the ninth circle of Hell in much the same way Dante...

In this book, Guy Raffa offers a fresh reading of Dante's major literary works - the Divine Comedy and the Vita nuova - that combines central tenets of incarnational theology and dialectical thought to illuminate the poet's renowned ability to 'have it both ways' on issues that conventionally elicit an 'either/or' response. Viewing Dante as a poet of revision, not conversion, Raffa challenges a dominant paradigm in Dante criticism and takes full account of the poet's unconventional approach to such conventional dichotomies as eros and spirituality, fame and humility, action and...

Dante Alighieri s Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until the publication in 2007 of Guy Raffa s guide to the Inferno, students lacked a suitable resource to help them navigate Dante s underworld. With this new guide to the entire Divine Comedy, Raffa provides readers experts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dante neophytes, and everyone in between with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of...