Icons and idols in Dante and Petrarch
This essay explores the presence of a polarised thematic of icons and idols in the works of Dante and Petrarch. In Dante’s Vita nuova and Commedia, and in Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Latin letters, the Veronica – vera icon – of Christ is invoked in relation to the poet’s beloved either as an analogous...
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Maney Publishing
2016
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