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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... Italian literature but by curiosity about , and love of , Dante's great work . The endeavour lasted seven years , and for most of this time , surprisingly , the circle was unbroken . For its hundredth and final meeting , the group ...
... Italy - that's a promise . And finally , for embodying Dante's ideal of the compagnevole ani- male , I am thankful to my golden retriever Manfred , who , like his namesake on the Holy Mountain , is “ biondo ... ..e bello e di gentile ...
... Italian reduction -aggio ) . " Thanks to this creative misconstruing , which affected the semantic development of the word in English , its dominant meaning today is “ excessive anger ” or “ anything that provokes intensely hostile ...
... catholicism . ” In modern Italian , as in modern English , “ credenza ” has come to mean a side table where various foods are placed so that they may be sampled before being served . This is not Dante's meaning INTRODUCTION 5.
... Italian infinitive drawn from the rich vocabulary of transgression and transcendence in the Commedia . Each infinitive is a compound of the prefix tra- or its variant tras- , from the Latin preposition trans signifying " over " or ...
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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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