Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of TransgressionJames L. Miller Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 22 apr. 2005 - 566 sidor 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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... Commedia . One of his key words for faith , credenza , is especially pertinent to this project because it implies a restless impulse to judge the social value of beliefs and to test the strength of a culture's confidence in prevailing ...
... Commedia by recalling the ban- queting table of the Convivio ( 1.1.10–13 ) where he spread out all his philo- sophical knowledge for the reader to sample . In the Sacred Poem his beliefs expand beyond the limited classical fare on his ...
... Commedia . He / She is ravishingly in love with it . True to the spirit of oltraggio , the heavenly kingdom suffers " violence from fervent love " [ vïolenza pate / da caldo amore ] ( Par . 20.94–5 ) even more violently than Dido did at ...
... Commedia . Opening with the infernal prospect of an industrial wasteland , Antonioni's Il deserto rosso struggles to give birth to a purgatorial vision of modern Italian life . Brakhage's The Dante Quar- tet , by contrast , moves ...
... Commedia from beginning to end at the house of professors John Thorp and Bonnie MacLachlan , whose tireless hospitality sustained the Circolo Dantesco di London from 1990 to 1997 . Their credenza ( in the modern sense ) was always laden ...
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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 |
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