Papers by Dante Alighieri
Quaderni d'italianistica, 1998
Quaderni d'italianistica, 1998
In the modern era imperialism and world domination have become rather unpopulìunotions. Indeed to... more In the modern era imperialism and world domination have become rather unpopulìunotions. Indeed to espouse one or aspire to the other is seen as politically incorrect, even fanatical, and perhaps worst of aU, outdated. And yet, throughout the world despots struggle to fight a rising number of independence movements, while in others, religious law or military dictatorship is being imposed in an effort to quell diversity and thereby ensure unity. At the same time, the European Community continues its quest for a unified state with a common currency and shared social values while Richard Kay, in his preface to this new edition of Dante's Monarchia expresses the thought that universal peace may only be possible through the imposition of a "single world
Because the deep-felt needs Dante addressed are universal and powerfully personal, Dante speaks t... more Because the deep-felt needs Dante addressed are universal and powerfully personal, Dante speaks to major concerns in contemporary American culture. But most of today's Dante commentators focus on his literary brilliance and subtlety rather than the brilliance and subtlety of his perception of the human condition. Thus readers need a new prose version of The Divine Comedy with accompanying notes that emphasize the sly wit and startling moral, psychological, and spiritual wisdom at its heart.
Because the deep-felt needs Dante addressed are universal and powerfully personal, Dante speaks t... more Because the deep-felt needs Dante addressed are universal and powerfully personal, Dante speaks to major concerns in contemporary American culture. But most of today's Dante commentators focus on his literary brilliance and subtlety rather than the brilliance and subtlety of his perception of the human condition. Thus readers need a new prose version of The Divine Comedy with accompanying notes that emphasize the sly wit and startling moral, psychological, and spiritual wisdom at its heart.
Among their many achievements, Italian Renaissance artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centur... more Among their many achievements, Italian Renaissance artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries transformed conventions for the depiction of space within the medium of painting. The flat, intangible, “otherworldly” spatial representations of the Gothic iconographic style fell increasingly into disuse as the tastes of the Quattrocento audience shifted to favor treatments of greater sophistication, illusionism, and naturalistic detail—treatments in which the figures depicted were perceived as occupying the same theoretical spaces of the domestic, devotional, and monastic as their audiences. A pictorial space that simulates three-dimensionality via the use of one-point perspective is intuitively more relatable, especially to an audience whose focus was shifting to a humanistic model—a philosophy which espoused that man was the measure of all things. The intentional blurring of the line between pictorial space and real space was a device put to powerful use in Renaissance painting ...
Among their many achievements, Italian Renaissance artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centur... more Among their many achievements, Italian Renaissance artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries transformed conventions for the depiction of space within the medium of painting. The flat, intangible, “otherworldly” spatial representations of the Gothic iconographic style fell increasingly into disuse as the tastes of the Quattrocento audience shifted to favor treatments of greater sophistication, illusionism, and naturalistic detail—treatments in which the figures depicted were perceived as occupying the same theoretical spaces of the domestic, devotional, and monastic as their audiences. A pictorial space that simulates three-dimensionality via the use of one-point perspective is intuitively more relatable, especially to an audience whose focus was shifting to a humanistic model—a philosophy which espoused that man was the measure of all things. The intentional blurring of the line between pictorial space and real space was a device put to powerful use in Renaissance painting ...
Philosophische Bibliothek, 2015
Philosophische Bibliothek, 2015
Triquarterly, Dec 22, 1993
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