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Article: Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination.
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- Church History
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- March 1, 2001
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Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination. By Peter S. Hawkins. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xx + 378. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.
In refreshing contrast to the many studies that investigate Dante's use or possible use of patristic and biblical sources, Hawkins's book approaches religious sources in the Divine Comedy from the perspective of the poem as a work of conversion, the poet's and ours, in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions. Beginning with the effect the Comedy had on him, Hawkins looks not only at the way Dante responds to the Bible and the fathers, but also to the way he uses the Bible to ...