Hidden in a European Bestseller: The Quadragesimale of Gritsch/Grütsch and the Reception of Dante's Commedia in Sermons.
The article investigates the presence of Dante in a sermon of the Quadragesimale printed under the name of Johannes Gritsch, one of the main sermon bestsellers in late medieval Europe. Albeit quite in plain sight, this text that translates into Latin and comments extensively on Paradiso 33. 1–9 has...
| Published in: | Medieval Sermon Studies Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 34 - 62 |
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Oct 2021
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