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In:The Divine Comedy and the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences: Acta of the International Dante Symposium, 13–16 Nov. 1983, Hunter College, New York
Edited by Giuseppe C. Di Scipio and Aldo Scaglione
[Not in series 34] 1988
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1988
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Table of contents

Forewordvii
A Half-Century of Dante Scholarship in America1
Dante’s Commedia and the Classical Tradition: The Case of Virgil15
Dante and the Ars Grammatica27
Dialectic and Mercury (Education, Magic and Religion in Dante)43
Dante’s Early Readers: The Evidence of Illustrated Manuscripts65
Dante and Arithmetic81
Geometric Metaphor and Proportional Design in Dante’s Commedia95
Astrology and Astronomy147
Dante’s Physics163
The Metaphysics of the Commedia181
Dante and the Art and Science of Medicine Reconsidered223
Dante: A Man for All Hours247
Dante and Politics267
The Frowning Pages: Scythians, Garamantes, Florentices, and the Two Laws285
L’Orizzonte Economico Medievale nella Divina Commedia e nei Principali Commenti del Trecento315
The Florentine Studia and Dante’s “Library”339
Dante and the Universities of Paris and Oxford367
Translating Dante’s Commedia: Terza Rima or Nothing373
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