Thompson strives to shed new light not only on Dante\'s allegory-and thus upon the whole troubled question of exactly what an allegory was thought to be-but on the intricate relationship between poet and poem and between Dante\'s spiritual Journeys and his written representation of those itineraries..
Thompson strives to shed new light not only on Dante\'s allegory-and thus upon the whole troubled question of exactly what an allegory was thought to be-but on the intricate relationship between poet and poem and between Dante\'s spiritual Journeys and his written representation of those itineraries.