Dante Soundings: Eight Literary and Historical EssaysDavid Nolan Irish Academic Press, 1981 - 192 pages |
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... prefigured and acquired significance in Christ , the Son , carrying the wood of the cross up Mount Calvary for his own crucifixion . ' So two real events were related in the divine scheme of history : the Old Testament event prefigured ...
... prefigured and acquired significance in Christ , the Son , carrying the wood of the cross up Mount Calvary for his own crucifixion . ' So two real events were related in the divine scheme of history : the Old Testament event prefigured ...
Page 62
... prefigured respec- tively the active Church Militant on earth and the contemplative Church Triumphant in the world to come . Christ's miracles , for instance the feeding of the five thousand , prefigured the ministry of the Church and ...
... prefigured respec- tively the active Church Militant on earth and the contemplative Church Triumphant in the world to come . Christ's miracles , for instance the feeding of the five thousand , prefigured the ministry of the Church and ...
Page 85
... prefigured in the actions of Moses and Cato . So important is this freedom that even its pagan prefiguration , Cato's suicide , has earned for the noble Roman , exceptionally , eternal salvation and the reacquisition of his body . It ...
... prefigured in the actions of Moses and Cato . So important is this freedom that even its pagan prefiguration , Cato's suicide , has earned for the noble Roman , exceptionally , eternal salvation and the reacquisition of his body . It ...
Contents
Foreword | 1 |
J C Barnes | 28 |
The Theme of Exodus in the First | 59 |
Copyright | |
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Aeneas Aeneid afterlife allegory Amor anagogical anagogical exodus appears Aquinas argument Aristotelian Aristotle avarice Beatrice beauty Boethius Cacciaguida canto Cato character Christ Christian Church classical Commedia condemnation contrast Convivio Dante Dante Studies Dante's death describes destiny Divine Comedy dolce earthly lives Earthly Paradise emperor episode Epistola eternal exemplum exodus fact fede figural Florence Florentine Fortuna Fortuna passage Francesca fulfilment God's Heaven heavenly Hell human Inferno vii interpretation Jerusalem journey justice Latin lines literal sense meaning medieval Monarchia moral allegory moral exodus nature pagan parables Paradiso Paris periphrasis philosophy Pier della Vigna Piero pilgrimage poem poet poeta poetic poetry political polysemy prefigured present pruno punishment Purg Purgatorio Purgatorio xviii reader reason reference resurrection rhetoric Ripheus Roman Empire Rome Siger of Brabant souls speech St Thomas Statius Statius's style suicide terzina Testament theme Theology true truth typology University University College Dublin verb Virgil Virgilio whole word