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Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition: Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination Watt, Mary (University of Florida, USA.) 1st edition
Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition: Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination
Watt, Mary (University of Florida, USA.)
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
186 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 12, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780367884413 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 186 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 360 g |
| Language | English |
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