Dante's Christian Astrology 1 by Hermes I glanced over Joseph Crane's article on archetypes, and saw he mentioned Dante's Divine Comedy. I have in my posession a book that is IMO unsurpassed in its scope and breadth. It is called "Dante's Christian Astrology" by Richard Kay. Seldom have I read such a complete survey of planetary associations and subtle poetic referrals found in Dante's work, and the planetary symbolism explained and traced back to practically all the traditional authors (mostly - early - Arabic and medieval if I'm not mistaken). I saw Amazon has a copy for sale, expensive, but worth it. Hermes Quote Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:47 am
2 by Philip Graves It sounds like an interesting book, Hermes. I don't have a copy, and the current used asking prices are so high that it's well down my list of priorities, but maybe a more affordable copy will appear at auction some day. There have been several earlier works on astrological symbolism in Dante's Divine Comedy too. In fact, I came upon a review in JSTOR the other day criticising Richard Kay for giving scant attention to the observations they made previously. These were: 'Dantes Sternglaube' by Rudolf Palgen (1940); 'Der kosmische Aufbau der Jenseitsreiche Dantes' by Georg Rabuse (1958). 'Gesammelte Aufs?tze zu Dante' by Georg Rabuse (1976). There was also a much earlier work in English that has been through several printings and is therefore more common second-hand than Richard Kay's more recent academic study: 'Dante's Ten Heavens: a Study of the Paradiso' by Edmund Gardner (first edition 1898; definitive second edition 1900; reprinted 1970). For an astrologer wanting to make a special study of Dante, I would have thought that all the above works would be essential reading. Quote Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:38 pm