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  title info:
    title: Dante's search for the Golden Age
  name:
    name part: Russo, Florence
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 255 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "The myth of the Golden Age and all the elements that are associated with it play a very important role in Dante's scheme to restore justice to a fallen world. The figure of Saturn, as King of the Golden Age and as the planet of the contemplatives, symbol of castration and sterility, loss and exile, struck a responsive chord in Dante's imaginatino. They myth of the Golden Age provided him with a simple and yet very wide-ranging structure into which he could lay out his master plan for humanity. The very few elements of the myth, the Virgin Iustitia who reigned along with Saturn and the all-powerful avarice that drove her away, become for the poet protagonists in struggle for the salvation of his soul and of that of humanity. The Divine Comedy can be considered on the simplest level a struggle to achieve Justice in a world corrupted by Avarice. The struggle is enacted in many ways and with different characters, but the stubstance of the fight does not change. On one side, the forces of cupiditas are embodied by the She-Wolf, the Medusa and the Siren; on the opposite side Dante fields such messengers of Grace as the Messo celeste of Canto IX of the Inferno, the "donna sante e presta" of Purgatorio XIX, and then Matelda of the Earthly Paradise as a pre figuration of Beatrice."--cover, p.4
  table of contents: The myth of the Golden Age -- The figure of Saturn in Dante's Divine Comedy -- Dante's search for the Golden Age: avarice and justice -- Henry VII and the dream of a New Golden Age -- The Medusa as Cupiditas -- Avarice and prodigality among the suicides.
  note: Florence Russo.
  note: Includes bibliography (pages 237-248) and index of names (pages 249-255).
  subject:
    topic: Criticism
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dante Alighieri
      name part: 1265-1321
  subject:
    topic: Italian poetry
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Filibrary series ; no. 32
  identifier: 1893127354
  identifier: 9781893127357
  record info:
    record content source: CTB
    record creation date: 120221
    record change date: 20151202151402.0
    record identifier: in00002689630
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng