Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Dante's Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination. By Peter S. Hawkins. Figurae Series. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi + 378 pp. $57.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Nearly half a century ago Dorothy Sayers remarked that Dante had more readers now than ever before. That band has not diminished since her day, nor has the body of scholarship surrounding Dante's works, especially the Commedia. Surely Hawkins's contribution to the corpus will stand as one of the offerings most deserving of the laurel wreath the poet himself desired. As one who has regularly led seminarians ...

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