Human Generation, Memory and Poetic Creation: From the Purgatorio to the Paradiso

By Paola Ureni

Statius’ scientific digression on the generation of the fetus and the formation of the fictive body in the afterlife occupies a large part of canto XXV of Dante’s Purgatorio. This article will examine the metaphorical relevance of that…

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