Cacciaguida's Prophecy in ‘Paradiso’ 17

In face of the uncompromising condemnation of divination in Inferno 20 some disquiet may be felt that Dante should have allowed himself any unfulfilled prophecies in the Comedy. If Dante began the Comedy in 1307–8, as is widely held, and penned the prophecy of the ‘515,’ referring to Henry VII, in P...

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Main Author: Hardie, Colin (Author)
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1963
In: Traditio
Year: 1963, Volume: 19, Pages: 267-294
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