{"product_id":"dantes-burning-sands-aldo-scaglione-9780820414737","title":"Dante's Burning Sands: Some New Perspectives","description":"This study illuminates some dark passages at the center of the \u003ci\u003eCommedia's\u003c\/i\u003e three canticles, revealing the poem's artistic integrity in ways hitherto unperceived. Dante's Sodom is a crematorium of all dead empires, where his fellow aristocrats join other Italian nobles, later judged in Purgatorio and Paradiso, as perverters of their  holy seed  of Roman nobility. All sinned against God, Nature and Art by subordinating their divine gift of human intelligence to beastly instincts, abusing power and privilege for material gain - a practice abhorrent to a true Roman. Having undergone metempsychosis, they resemble Homeric beasts pastured by Circe in Dante's typological circle of burning sands in the \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aldo Scaglione,Francesca D'Antoni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820414735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820414737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Aldo Scaglione","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241114611967,"sku":"9780820414737","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be564333-4738-4d23-88d0-b23a431d240a.jpg?v=1772652800","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dantes-burning-sands-aldo-scaglione-9780820414737","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}