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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... 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 ethical sense ( Inf . 16.74 ) . From a moral standpoint , even if you are ...
... sense of " maddeningly preposterous " or " critically infu- riating " or even " blatantly heretical . " It would be so especially to a devout Catholic reader trying to understand the unorthodox genesis of the Com- media . Though the ...
... sense ) was always laden with delicious olives , fresh bread , exquisite dolci , and epicurean wines for sampling after the translation and discussion of each session's canto . Recollections of the lively dialogues that took place ...
... sense of the term . Their creative per- turbation in response to his idiosyncratic recreation of Catholicism and their sense of wonder at discovering his prophetic relevance to theological con- troversies and cultural issues of our own ...
... a strong sense of the Sacred is still conveyed to us as witnesses of Dante's creative martyrdom even if we are far from believing in his God . The visionary beauty streaming from Beatrice as the model for 16 INTRODUCTION.
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 |