Ethics, politics and justice in Dante

Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante's modern 'afterlife'. Together the chapters explore how Dante's writings engage with th...

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Other Authors: Gaimari, Giulia (Editor), Keen, Catherine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2019, 2019
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505 0 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Editions followed and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Justice in the Heart; 1. On Grammar and Justice: Notes on Convivio, II. xii. 1-7; 2. A Classicising Friar in Dante's Florence:Servasanto da Faenza, Dante and the Ethics of Friendship; 3. An Ethical and Political Bestiary in the First Canto of Dante's Comedy; 4. Lust and the Law: Reading and Witnessing in InfernoV; 5. More than an Eye for an Eye: Dante's Sovereign Justice 
505 0 |a 6. 'Ritornerò profeta': The Epistle of St James and the Crowning of Dante's Patience7. Ethical Distance and Political Resonance in the Eclogues of Dante; I. Two Reflections on Dante's Political and Ethical Afterlives; 8. Dante's Fortuna: An Overview of Canon Formation and National Contexts; 9. Responses to Dante in the New Millennium; Bibliography; Index; Backcover 
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520 |a Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante's modern 'afterlife'. Together the chapters explore how Dante's writings engage with the contemporary culture of medieval Florence and Italy, and how and why his political and moral thought still speaks compellingly to modern readers. The collection's contributors range across different disciplines and scholarly traditions - history, philology, classical reception, philosophy, theology - to scrutinise Dante's Divine Comedy and his other works in Italian and Latin, offering a multi-faceted approach to the evolution of Dante's political, ethical and legal thought throughout his writing career. Certain chapters focus on his early philosophical Convivio and on the accomplished Latin Eclogues of his final years, while others tackle knotty themes relating to judgement, justice, rhetoric and literary ethics in his Divine Comedy, from hell to paradise. The closing chapters discuss different modalities of the public reception and use of Dante's work in both Italy and Britain, bringing the volume's emphasis on morality, political philosophy, and social justice into the modern age of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. --