Title: Dante and the Orient /
Authors: Schildgen, Brenda Deen, 1942-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Dante Alighieri,; Dante Alighieri, Knowledge Orient.; Dante Alighieri, Knowledge Geography.; Geography in literature.; Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; Orient In literature.
Abstract: "Probing Dante's knowledge of empirical geography, use of crusade rhetoric, and fascination with the world beyond European borders, Brenda Deen Schildgen offers a new perspective on Dante's utopian imagination, political motivations and literary intentions in the Commedia and other works." "In Dante and the Orient, Schildgen argues that Dante's treatment of the East enabled him to use the rhetoric employed in crusade narratives and other travel literature to oppose the military and polemic goals of the Crusades and to plead for the reformation of both church and state."--Jacket.