Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in 'The Comedy' (Troubador Italian Studies) by Diana Glenn Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in 'The Comedy' (Troubador Italian Studies) by Diana Glenn PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad This is a new perspective on Dante's poetic mission of reform through the lens of the female characters. It should be of interest to Dante scholars, teachers and students of the Comedy. General readers with an understanding of Dante's major poetic work will also be interested in this volume. This book offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the presence and significance of female characters in Dante's Comedy. Commencing with the tabulations of women listed in Inferno IV and Purgatorio XXII, to which may be added the grouping in Paradiso XXXII, the author traces the symmetry and symbolic import of these clusters. Also central to her study are the lucid expositions of major figures in the poem, such as ...