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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... essays in this present volume were germinated at that conference . Although the conference and the final meeting were an occasion of joy for the Circolo , our mood was also tinged with sadness because one of the orig- inal members did ...
... Essay : Prophet of the Paragone James Miller 490 Calling Dante : Notes on the Artists James Miller .. 505 Calling Dante : A Portfolio of Words and Images Andrew Pawlowski and Zbigniew Pospieszynski 509 Calling Dante : From Dante on the ...
... essays on the First Circle of Hell and its inhabitants . In the first essay , Amilcare A. Iannucci explores a range of theological reactions to Dante's strikingly original treatment of Limbo ( from Latin limbus , meaning " margin ...
... essay con- siders the significance of sacrifice in Virgil's tragedìa ( Inf . 20.113 ) to sug- gest why Dante's guide must be sacrificed to ensure the supremacy of the Commedia over its classical sources . Passing beyond Limbo , Dante ...
... essays on the erotics of salvation in Purgatorio and Paradiso . My essay on Dante's ( still ) highly unorthodox response to sexual diver- sity links Statius's lecture on what goes on in the human womb to the pur- gation of same - sex ...
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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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