Dante's testaments
Subtitle: essays in scriptural imagination
By: Peter S. Hawkins.
Series: Figurae; Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Religion; Bible -- In literature
Description: "This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancient Latin poets, in such Christian authorities as Augustine or Benedict, or in the "book of the world" - the globe traversed by pilgrims and navigators."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-363 and index.