Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment: 25 (Italian Perspectives (Maney))

by George Corbett (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $91.90

  Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God's divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and that all religion is vain superstition. And yet Epicurus is, for Dante, not only the quintessential heretic but an ethical ally.