Dante's deadly sins
Subtitle: moral philosophy in Hell
By: Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780470671054
Subjects: Ethics; Hell in literature; Deadly sins in literature
Description: "The Commedia, Dante's powerful vision of the afterlife and human punishment, is one of the great works of world culture. In Dante's Deadly Sins, Belliotti expertly draws new and unique insights from the poem, analyzing it in moral terms that connect the poem's themes to our own contemporary condition."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inferno; title: Purgatorio; title: The notion of desert and the law of contrapasso; title: Paradoxes and puzzles : Virgil and Cato; title: The seven deadly sins; title: Dante's existential moral lessons.