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Article: Dante and the Church: Literary and Historical Essays
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- January 1, 2009
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Dante and the Church: Literary and Historical Essays. Edited by Paolo Acquaviva and Jennifer Petric. [University College Dublin Foundation for Italian Studies.] (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2007. Pp. 217. euro55,00; $65.00. ISBN 978-1-846-82026-7.)
This collection of stimulating essays situates Dante within the dramatic ecclesial context of his time. Originally delivered as lectures at University College Dublin in 2001-02 as part of the annual Dante series (the principal forum for Dante research in Ireland), four historians and three Italianists offer erudite investigations of the Florentine poet's complex and often contentious love affair with the Church. As stated in the preface, it should ...