@inbook{10.3138/9781442696693.10,
 ISBN = {9781442641198},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442696693.10},
 abstract = {At the beginning ofParadisoVIII, and alluding to the Heaven of Venus in which he now finds himself, Dante differentiates this heaven from the ancient notion of Venus the goddess of ‘mad love’ (folle amore) (Par. VIII, 2), and refers to this ancient belief as error: ‘le genti antiche nell’antico errore’ [the ancient peoples in their ancient error] (5). The reference to ‘folle amor’ is to Virgil’sAeneidand to Dido, and more explicitly to Venus’ fears that her son Aeneas may not be welcome at her court because of Juno’s constant interference with her son’s voyage. Venus instructs},
 bookauthor = {MASSIMO VERDICCHIO},
 booktitle = {The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso},
 pages = {46--58},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Heaven of Venus: Rhetoric (VIII–IX)},
 year = {2010}
}