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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... original . Dante has another word for " excess " in a morally shameful sense dismisura which he associates with the pride of the Florentines whose new wealth has encouraged immoderation or “ lack of measure " in the old Aristotelian ...
... original treatment of Limbo ( from Latin limbus , meaning " margin " ) and shows how the poet's critical response to thirteenth - century scholastic decisions about the afterlife of noble pagans and unbaptized infants ironically reveals ...
... original transfiguring brilliance for the multitudes of pilgrims drawn to Rome for Pope John Paul II's Jubilee , are probably enough to sustain the iconic assumption of Dante's theological purity well into the new millennium . It is an ...
... original vision of the separation of papal and imperial powers , the Bishop of Bologna ordered copies of the Monarchia to be publicly burned . Implicit in this textual auto - da - fé was a symbolic incineration of the poet himself , as ...
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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 |