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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... questions about the orthodoxy of Dante's treatment of everyone from Brunetto and Mohammed in Hell to Cunizza and Ripheus in Heaven . I have been blessed with undergraduate students who have been " outraged " by Dante in every sense of ...
... question , too , is explicitly raised by Dante & the Unorthodox , and provocative answers to it are to be found in ... questions . 14 INTRODUCTION.
... questions . strategically implicated in the title of the volume . Aesthetics is constantly at play with politics in the volume , and the critical result is a superimposing ( in effect , another mapping ) of Dante's faith - frontier onto ...
... question . " 15 It is certainly out of the question for Dante as he gazes on Beatrice's face in the Stel- latum . The capacity of her beauty to exceed all measure provokes this matter - of - fact comment from him , a gloss which under ...
... question of Dante's authority as a poet - theologian was pro- posed by Raphael in two iconic portraits of the poet worked into the learned design of the frescoes for the Stanza della Segnatura adjoining the Sistine Chapel . In the ...
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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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