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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... the inquisitorial mission of the Dominicans was St. Augustine . " Vulpes insidiosos , maximeque haereticos significant ; dolosos , fraudulentes , " he taught them in a particularly snarling passage : “ Foxes 22 INTRODUCTION.
The Aesthetics of Transgression James L. Miller. taught them in a particularly snarling passage : “ Foxes signify insidious people , most especially heretics - treacherous frauds ! " 21 When such a fox leaps out of the underbrush and ...
... Passage along them , or back to them , is now impossible . By dispensing so quickly with the straight way and the true way , Dante strategically compels us to question his orthodoxy all along his chosen route . For both 34 INTRODUCTION.
... passage from the Summa theologiae ( 2-2.154 , a.12 ) in which Aquinas determines that sins committed against Nature , especially sodomy " whereby the very order of nature is violated , " must also be considered injuries done to God as ...
... passage . As a rational response to literary fantasy , it is unquestioningly assumed to operate as part of the normal process of interpreting fiction as make - believe : we are encour- aged to adhere to the age - old rule of temporary ...
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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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