Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of TransgressionJames L. Miller Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2005 M04 22 - 566 páginas During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned—this time as a heretic and false prophet—by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani’s inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia “seduced” his readers by offering them “a vessel of demonic poison” mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the “healthful truth” of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante’s poetic fame. The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante’s allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed “way of salvation.” Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book’s eighteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet’s conflicted relation to orthodoxy. By bringing the unorthodox out of the realm of “secret things,” by uncensoring them at every turn, Dante dared to oppose the censorious regime of Latin Christianity with a transgressive zeal more threatening to papal authority than the demonic hostility feared by Friar Vernani. |
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... figure to appear in both the Disputa and the Parnaso . His appearance up on the Mountain ( visitors to the Stanza must look up above a doorway to see him ) hardly comes as a surprise to anyone who recalls the invocation to Apollo at the ...
... figures of Ambrose and Augustine seated next to the altar . While the two bishops look away from each other as if they ... figure whose face is partly obscured by the busy workmen milling about at the construction site . His Dominican ...
... figure on Apollo's left , joins Homer and Virgil ( happily harrowed from Limbo ) to complete the triad of epic poets on the summit of humanist culture . Photo credit : Scala Archives Raphael , Disputa del Sacra- mento ( 1509 ) , Stanza ...
... figure of Pope Sixtus IV ( standing on the first step ) is a clear sign that Florence's most famous outcast has come back to the fold as part of Rome's holy team . Photo credit : Scala Archives Raphael , Disputa ( detail ) , Stanza ...
... figures of Charon and Minos at the shore of the Underworld , to the artist's Marsyas - like self - portrait on the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew , to the nude male saints lunging their mouths towards each other for paradisial kisses ...
Contenido
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63 | |
Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |