Angels and the order of heaven in medieval and Renaissance Italy /
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Pure act: Medieval angelology and Dante's angels : Tongues of angels ; Dante and the scholastics ; The Divine Comedy
- Wings: Celestial visions in the later middle ages and Renaissance : Imagining heaven ; The nine orders: Padua, Riofreddo, and Rome ; The assumption and coronation of the virgin ; The communion of the blessed and the beatific vision
- Bodies and voices: Annunciation and heavenly harmonies :Ave Maria ; "A sound of tumult like the sounds of a host": the music of angels ; Jacob's ladder
- Contemplation: Angelic witness and empathy : The bread of angels ; Tobias and the angel ; Raphael transfigured
- Clouds and the fall: Rebellion, salvation, and reform : The fall of the rebel angels: Rome, Siena, and Caprarola ; Demons and artists.