Dante Encyclopedia
Language: English
Pages: 1034
ISBN: 0415876117
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Dante Encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource that presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works and the cultural context in which his moral and intellectual imagination took shape.
Press, 1972. Neser, L. Studien zur Biographie Karls von Valois. Freiburg in Breisgau: Hammerschlag and Kahle, 1912. Petit, J. Charles de Valois (1270–1325). Paris: Picard, 1900. Andreas Kiesewetter Charon The demon boatman (Inf. 3.82–129) who ferries the dead souls across Acheron, the infernal river marking the threshold of Hell. His character, name, role, and physical traits (a vigorous hoary man with red eyes) are taken from Aen. 6.298–304. Charon (Caron, Caronte) is the first of the demonized
statesman (519?–439? B.C.E.) cited in Conv. 4.5.15 (Quinzio Cincinnato) and Mon. 2.5.9–10 for his unselfish leadership and dedication to the common good. In Paradiso Justianian recalls his role in defending the Roman republic against the Aequians (6.46), and Cacciaguida refers to him as an example of virtue lacking in modern-day Florence (15.127). A farmer who was appointed dictator in 458 B.C.E., he resigned his office after his mission was accomplished. For Dante he exemplifies the right rule of
Tite, tute, Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulisti. In the De schematibus et tropis, the Venerable Bede offers scriptural exempla from Ps. 58 and Ps. 118. While not employing any specific term, both Geoffrey of Vinsauf in the Poetria nova (vv. 1925–1930) and, within Dante’s circle of intimates, Giovanni del Virgilio in his brief Ars dictaminis warn against excessive initial consonant repetition. Some rhetoricians distinguish letter-specific subcategories of alliteration: alliterative “m” constitutes
Tite, tute, Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulisti. In the De schematibus et tropis, the Venerable Bede offers scriptural exempla from Ps. 58 and Ps. 118. While not employing any specific term, both Geoffrey of Vinsauf in the Poetria nova (vv. 1925–1930) and, within Dante’s circle of intimates, Giovanni del Virgilio in his brief Ars dictaminis warn against excessive initial consonant repetition. Some rhetoricians distinguish letter-specific subcategories of alliteration: alliterative “m” constitutes
humans through the heavens: “it is without doubt within the capacity of human understanding to comprehend the mover of the heaven [God], and his will, through the motion thereof ” (Epist. 5.23). This is so because the heavens are God’s “instruments” for distributing his goodness on Earth. Thus the stars are the means by which the ideas in the divine mind are transmitted to and embodied in matter. Insofar as physical things are good, this perfection is imparted by the stars. Such things are not