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Il libro della Scrittura, il libro della Natura, il libro della Memoria: l'esegesi dantesca di C.S. Singleton fra tradizione giudaico-cristiana e trascendentalismo emersoniano
- MLN
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 122, Number 1, January 2007 (Italian Issue)
- pp. 46-79
- 10.1353/mln.2007.0024
- Article
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This article analyzes the key function and meaning of Dante's imitation of God's creation through three Books of revelation (Scripture, Nature, History-Memory), as elaborated in Singleton's major critical works on Dante written between 1949 and 1958 (An Essay on the "Vita Nuova;" Dante Studies 1. "Commedia:" Elements of Structure; Dante Studies 2. Journey to Beatrice). It also aims to connect Singleton's investigation of Dante's use of allegory and symbolism to the Judaio-Christian tradition as primary source as well as to the American philosophical tradition from Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism to George Santayana's thought which served as a foundation for the American Dante Scholar.