Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy

Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy
Author: Diana Glenn
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1906510237

Offers an analysis of the presence and significance of female characters in Dante's 'Comedy'. Commencing with the tabulations of women listed in "Inferno IV" and "Purgatorio XXII", to which may be added the grouping in "Paradiso XXXII", this work traces the symmetry and symbolic import of these clusters.