In the Light of the Angels

Angelology and Cosmology in Dante's Divina Commedia

by Susanna Barsella

Book cover: In the Light of the Angels

Extent: 230 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Literary Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Biblioteca dell'Archivum Romanicum. Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia

Series volume number: 370

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2010)

ISBN: 9788822259745

Price: $40.00

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As the first organic study on angelic operations in the Divine Comedy, this book puts Dante’s angelology within the XIII century theological and philosophical debate on the nature and functions of separate substances. Highlighting the original fusion of classical and patristic traditions within the providential outline of the poem, it argues the centrality of angels in the Comedy’s ethical-cosmological system and narrative strategy, opening new interpretations of figures such as the “Heavenly Messenger”; the Purgatory angels; and Beatrice.

  • By (author) Susanna Barsella