Alessandro Scafi

Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Cultural History, Warburg Institute, University of London

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      Renaissance Maps of Paradise
      Historian Alessandro Scafi on the four rivers of paradise, Calvin's mapping of Eden, and the first attempts to imagine heaven not on Earth
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      Dante’s Heaven
      Alessandro Scafi on Divine Comedy story line, the desire of God, and Mark Twain
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      Medieval Mapping
      Historian Alessandro Scafi on the Medieval knowledge about spherical form of the Earth, compass points on medieval maps, and role of history in mapping
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      Medieval Maps of Paradise
      Historian Alessandro Scafi on the garden of Eden, Augustin's concept of creation, and the emergence of the term "Paradise"
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