{"product_id":"dante-eros-kabbalah-9780815630272","title":"Dante, Eros, \u0026 Kabbalah","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid Dante Alighieri, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e as a young man in Florence sleep with Beatrice Portinari before and after her marriage? Did the poet travel after her death through Hell to find her again? The clues to this academic detective story, writes Mark Jay Mirsky, lie not only in Dante's earlier poetry, The New Life, or in \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy, \u003c\/i\u003e but in the \u003ci\u003eZohar of Moses de Leon, \u003c\/i\u003e a Jewish text written some years before and based on Neoplatonic ideas similar to those that inspired Dante. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePurgatorio and Paradiso, \u003c\/i\u003e the second and third volumes of the \u003ci\u003eCommedia, \u003c\/i\u003e are inaccessible to most readers unfamiliar with the boldness of Dante's use of the philosophical debate in the Middle Ages. Does Dante's \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e hint at his hope of intimacy with Beatrice in the Highest Heaven? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book Mirsky distinctively traces the influence on Dante of Provencal poets, medieval theologians, Dante's personal life, and the sources of his classical education to propose a radical reading of Dante. The text compounds the riddles of dream, poetry, philosophy, and Dante's concealed autobiography in his work. It treats the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e in the spirit of its title, as a hopeful and comic vision of the other world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Mirsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 5.96w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815630272","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40265611051123,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ee6af8e1-9839-4e0a-b00a-da5d438211a8.jpg?v=1657721762","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/dante-eros-kabbalah-9780815630272","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}