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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... minds struggling at a great dis- tance from God to understand the uniqueness of divine existence.2 That's not Dante's problem in the Empyrean . His is no ordinary human mind , as he repeatedly reminds us . He has already shown us all ...
... mind intent on one " [ mia mente unita ] ( Par . 10.63 ) . The conceptual struggle to define divine existence is so far behind him in the Empyrean that he has no need of the Ontological Argument to " prove " the existence of God . Any ...
... mind . Yet oltraggio is clearly not to be confused with dismisura . Since the pilgrim at the end of his journey is gazing towards the immemorial origin of all things , including his own words , a clue to the significance of oltraggio ...
... mind during a fugitive dream— Qual è colui che sognando vede , che dopo ' l sogno la passione impressa rimane , e l'altro a la mente non riede ... [ As is he who dreaming sees , and after the dream the passion remains imprinted and the ...
... mind [ ' mparadisa la mia mente ] ( Par . 28.3 ) by expanding and enrapturing it with the prospect of a New Roman orthodoxy through which all faithful lovers , not just celibate lovers of the Catholic faith , may be saved from the ...
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 |