{"product_id":"dante-and-pauls-five-words-robert-hollander-9780866981217","title":"Dante and Paul's Five Words with Understanding: Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language in Dante's Commedia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDante and Paul's \"Five Words with Understanding\" is the first in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series is designed to make available to a broad audience studies on a wide variety of subjects by leading medieval and Renaissance scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this volume, Hollander argues that in Dante's Commedia there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language and thus reflect Paul's admonition to the Corinthians to give over the desire to speak publicly in tongues. Five words spoken with understanding, Paul tells them, are preferable to \"ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHollander analyzes the speeches of Nimrod (Inferno 31.67) and Plutus (Inferno 7.1) and other instances of garbled or mixed speech from the Purgatorio and Paradiso that appear to belong to this five-word program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Hollander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0866981217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780866981217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Distribution Partners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d","brand":"Robert Hollander","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453423497471,"sku":"9780866981217","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6963cda7-883a-4904-b7b6-af1e58323eac.jpg?v=1777300141","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dante-and-pauls-five-words-robert-hollander-9780866981217","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}