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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... appear like birds whirled in a stormy blast ; others resemble cattle in a herd bound for slaughter ; still others ... appears ? While Catholic orthodoxy retained the Greek philosophical distinction between mortality and immortality , it ...
... appear to be primarily an ago- nized apology for the politics of taboo . Virgil himself encourages such a view of the poem in his muffled protest against the Emperor who excludes him from the Heavenly Rome because he was " rebellious to ...
... appear in both the Disputa and the Parnaso . His appearance up on the Mountain ( visitors to the Stanza must look up above a doorway to see him ) hardly comes as a surprise to anyone who recalls the invocation to Apollo at the start of ...
... appears to be in the painting , a papally approved mediator between the laity and the learned , he quite simply would not be standing there at the sacramental heart of the Vatican . Pope Julius II , who was Raphael's patron , would ...
... appears to be the foundation stone of a new St. Peter's , the future seat of the Church Triumphant . Standing in front of the same stone , just behind the poet , is a small dark hooded figure whose face is partly obscured by the busy ...
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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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