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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... once a fortnight during term at the house of professors John Thorp and Bonnie MacLachlan , and proceeding at the stately pace of one canto per meeting . The members of this group , which came to be called the Circolo Dantesco di London ...
... once Dante discovered he had achieved it with a little help from Beatrice , his soul was duly dazzled by the beauty of the Rose . But this pre- liminary breakthrough into eternity did not cause a “ heavenquake . ” 4 It did not rock the ...
... once struck the theologically fragile Church of the early thirteenth century : e ne li sterpi eretici percosse l'impeto suo , più vivamente quivi dove le resistenze eran più grosse . Di lui si fecer poi diversi rivi onde l'orto catolico ...
... once praised as that rarity among intellectuals , an expert willing to laugh at his own mis- takes ( Par . 28.133-5 ) . Gregory is clearly identified by a copy of his most influential work , the Moralia , lying at his feet . His ...
... once notorious " problem cases " on the margins of papal tolerance . Both suffered Florentine rejection . Both now enjoy Roman favour.22 The Disputa is yet another fantasy of orthodoxy , of course , but it is such a grand one that it ...
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Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |