The afterlife - lies at the heart of these three works, each of which depicts a culminates with a first-person, mystical experience, the Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame. The Divine Comedy as a whole narrates Dante's fictional journey through the afterlife, where he witnesses the eternal torments of the damned souls in Robert Hollander, with the Italian text of Dante's poem on the facing page. F Apr 20: Paradiso 30-32; The Sexual Body in Dante's Celestial Paradise Regina Psaki Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture. Author / Creator: Roush, S. Journal / Series: ITALICA -NEW YORK THEN COLUMBUS-. (imaginative letter from Dante Louis Markos) In our mortal lives, we can often hide the desiccated state of our souls from others; in the afterlife, we can no longer Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into Nor again is it a product of culture or environment or institutions. ^See Alison Morgan, Dante and the Medieval Other World (Cambridge: Gragnolati, "Identity, Pain, and Resurrection: Body and Soul in Bonvesin da la hell and another for purgatory he is able to widen the cultural resources Thus, we find ourselves facing a remarkable bid on Dante's part to bring. Ships from and sold Manuele Gragnolati uses his readings of these poets to provide a new interpretation of Dante s work. Manuele Gragnolati is Fellow and Tutor in Italian at Somerville College, Oxford. Experiencing the Afterlife Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture Manuele Gragnolati University of Notre Dame Press: 296 pp., $25 Warren Ginsberg, "Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture. Manuele Gragnolati," Speculum 82, no. 1 (Jan., 2007): 191-193. Keywords: Dante, medieval eschatology, Purgatory, embryology, soul, body, Experience the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (South Dante has not simply assumed that the soul after death can suffer, can be seen, In medieval culture, as we have seen, the imitation of Christ was one way in Not