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WEBB, H., Dante, Artist of Gesture. Oxford University Press, 2022. 208p. Hardback. Gestural Dante offers, in its focus on gestures, a strikingly original perspective on Dante's poem. Skillfully organized, clearly and gracefully written, the book examines in six chapters the gesturality of the Divine Comedy in the context of visual culture of the period. It uncovers networks of gestural signification in the poem that resonate throughout the three canticles and in a synergistic relation with the iconographic, artistic and literary traditions surrounding the poem, ranging from the mosaics of the baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, to fresco cycles by Giotto, to Botticelli's famous illustrations, as well as to Biblical and classical literary sources (especially Virgil), to lives of saints, to the influential Meditations on the Life of Christ. Gestural Dante will change the way we read and teach the poem. Theodore J. Cachey Jr., Professor of Italian, Director of Graduate Studies in Italian |a 06/01/2023 (Publisher's information). € 96.47 (New) (approx. delivery time: 14 days) ISBN: 9780192866998