It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read Reading Dante's Stars by Alison Cornish
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Astronomy is one of the most prominent and perplexing features of Dante's Divine Comedy. In the final rhyme of the poem's three parts, and in scores of descriptions and analogies, the stars are an intermediate goal and a constant point of reference for the spiritual journey the poem narrates. This book makes a sustained analysis of Dante's use of astronomy, not only in terms of the precepts of medieval science but also in relation to specific moral, philosophical, and poetic problems laid out in each chapter.For Dante, Alison Cornish says, the stars offer optical representations of invisible...
Reading Dante's Stars by Alison Cornish is 226 pages long, and a total of 57,856 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Reading Dante's Stars aloud.
Reading Dante's Stars is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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