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Mar 01 2026

Parodying the sacred. At the origins of Dante’s “nove rime”

1. Beatrice and Donna Gentile: two rival women? 2. Sacred love songs. 3. An intellectual miracle. 4. The “nove rime”. 5. Florence, 1287-1289. 6. Philosophy and Solomonic wisdom. 7. The exile of Job. 7.1. Tre donne. 7.2. Epistola IV. 7.3. The “rime petrose”. 7.4. Meditations on Hell. 7.5. The modern prophet.   This essay is …

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