Giuseppe Ledda on holy women in Dante’s Comedy

Shchirova E.A.

undergraduate student of the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Department of Modern Western European Languages and Literatures

Abstract

The article gives a survey of Giuseppe Ledda’s recent work on the holy women mentioned by Dante in his Comedy. The researcher marks functional variety of women characters in the Comedy, but focuses on their strong structural role.

Keywords

Dante; women figures; holy women; hagiography.

DOI: 10.31249/lit/2023.02.11

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