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The Divinatory Comedy: Geomancy in Dante's Purgatorio

The Divinatory Comedy: Geomancy in Dante's Purgatorio

Dianteill, Erwan

Hardcover

Series: Prognostication in History, Book 14

Fiction AnthologiesFortune TellingGeneral Poetry

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 19, 2026

ISBN10: 9004770062
ISBN13: 9789004770065
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 19 2026
Pages: 387
Language: English
What hidden design shapes Dante's Purgatorio? In this bold and original study, Erwan Dianteill argues that medieval geomancy is not a passing allusion but the poem's concealed organizing principle. Drawing on philology, anthropology, and the history of divination, Erwan Dianteill shows that the second canticle of the Divine Comedy can be read through the geomantic system transmitted by Bartolomeo da Parma, Dante's contemporary. Figures, triplicities, and judges illuminate Antepurgatory, the seven cornices, and the Earthly Paradise. The result is a rigorous and compelling new account of Dante's poetic architecture, symbolic logic, and intellectual world. The Divinatory Comedy opens a revelatory path into one of the supreme monuments of world literature.

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