The Poetry of Allusion
Subtitle: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's `Commedia'
Contributors: Rachel Jacoff (Editor); Jeffrey Schnapp (Editor)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: August 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780804718608
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Poetry & poets; Poetry; Italian Poetry; Continental European; Italian; Literature: Classics; Western Continental Europe; Knowledge and learning; Aeneis; Dante Alighieri; In literature; Metamorphoses; Ovid; Poetry / Single Author / Continental European; Virgil; Allusions in literature; Roman influences; 1265-1321; Dante Alighieri,; Divina commedia; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Ovid,
First sentence: A comparison of the semantic range of pietas in the Aeneid with that of its Italian cognate pieta in the Commedia may seem difficult to justify at first glance, since the Latin word comprises both "duty owed to the gods, to one's parents, and to one's country" and "clemency, sympathy, fellow feeling," but in medieval Italian (and in Old French, Old Spanish, and Middle English as well), pieta is generally limited to the second sense, especially as "pity, compassion."