Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition: Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination - Paperback

by Mary Watt (Author)

The first part of this study explores the extent to which Dante's Divine Comedy contributed to Christopher Columbus's perception of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he called an 'other world.' The second considers how Italian writers and artists of the late Renaissance and Counter Reformation received the news of th

Author Biography

Mary Alexandra Watt is an Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, USA.