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"In this book, Guy Raffa offers a fresh reading of Dante's major literary works - the Divine Comedy and the Vita nuova - that combines central tenets of incarnational theology and dialectical thought to illuminate the poet's renowned ability to 'have it both ways' on issues that conventionally elicit an 'either/or' response. Viewing Dante as a poet of revision, not conversion, Raffa challenges a dominant paradigm in Dante criticism and takes full account of the poet's unconventional approach to such conventional dichotomies as eros and spirituality, fame and humility, action and contemplation, and obedience and transgression. Divine Dialectic ultimately argues that Dante crosses textual and theological boundaries in his medieval epic to promote the paradoxical union of contradiction and resolution as a way of reading his poem and, by extension, the world itself."--Jacket

Incarnation in literature. --- Dialectic in literature. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) --- Cumégia (Dante Alighieri) --- Divine comedy (Dante Alighieri) --- Divina comedia (Dante Alighieri) --- Commedia (Dante Alighieri) --- Comedy (Dante Alighieri) --- Poema sacro (Dante Alighieri) --- Comedia (Dante Alighieri)

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Like a saint’s relics, Dante’s bones have been stolen, exhumed, and worshiped. Guy Raffa narrates the Florentine poet’s hereafter—the physical afterlife of the writer who vividly imagined the spiritual afterlife. In the story of the bones lies the tale of Dante’s evolution from Renaissance to Italian to nationalist hero, and finally global icon.

National characteristics, Italian. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Relics. --- Death and burial. --- Tomb. --- Benito Mussolini. --- Corrado Ricci. --- Dante's body. --- Dante's death. --- Dante's exile. --- Dante's face. --- Dante's tomb. --- Danteum. --- Enrico Pazzi. --- Gabriele D'Annunzio. --- Giovanni Boccaccio. --- Giuseppe Mazzini. --- Italian history. --- Lord Byron. --- Risorgimento. --- Santa Croce. --- Ugo Foscolo. --- cenotaph.