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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... noted but were now magisterially defended on subtle theological , psychological , or aesthetic grounds . Editors implicitly absolved him of his scandalous rep- utation and reconciled him with the Church . Apology countered anathema ...
... noted , all quotations from the Commedia are drawn from the Petrocchi edition as reprinted and slightly revised by Singleton ( 1970-75 ) . Unless otherwise noted , translations of Dante in this introduction are by Sin- gleton . In ...
... noted above the fluidity in the accounts of both Bonaventure and Aquinas . Moreover , Aquinas , in a theological aside , had considered the possibility that Limbo and Hell might constitute one continuous realm in the netherworld . " 1 ...
... noted above , is his treatment of the Limbo of the Fathers , a treatment which underscores the main reason whereby Dante opted to fashion the Limbo that he did . For the tra- ditional Limbo of the Fathers was grounded in Christ's ...
... noted , using a key distinction provided by W. H. Auden , in my " Limbo : The Emptiness of Time , " 77 , the drama of the virtuous pagans resem- bles more a Greek tragedy of necessity than a Christian tragedy of possibil- ity . Perhaps ...
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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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