Dante’s Renaissance Dramatization of Women Characters in The Divine Comedy
published by Aِl-Baath University
in 2016
in English
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
Writers, in general, characterized women through different
images. The dominated image in such writings is lustfulness. Dante
uses this image to present three Oriental women: Semiramis,
Cleopatra and Dido.
References used
Alighieri, Dante. Divine Comedy: Inferno. Trans. Dorothy Sayers and Barbara Reynolds. London: Penguin, 1962
Divine Comedy: Paradise. Trans. Dorothy Sayers and Barbara Reynolds. London: Penguin 1962
Bahrani, Zainab. Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia. London: Routledge, 2001