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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... Pawlowski and Zbigniew Pospieszynski 509 Calling Dante : From Dante on the Steps of Immortality Andrew Pawlowski 517 Notes on Contributors 531 Index 535 Acknowledgments So many guides and spirits have kept me on viii CONTENTS.
... spirit of oltraggio , the project of this volume is to dis- cover just how far Dante was willing to push his faith beyond the doctri- nal limits of the Catholic Church , and why his theological impulse to expand his belief is ...
... spirits upwards to an angelic dawn . Heretics , sodomites , epicureans , schismatics , witches , false prophets all died unspeakable deaths at the stake under Dominican anathema . Under the spell of Dantean allegory their unorthodox spirits ...
... Spirit descends with transubstantiating impeto towards the host held up in a golden monstrance . This surprising scene recalls the typo- logical transposition of the Pentecost into the sacramental key of the Eucharist in Dante's ...
... spirit of the Paragone , brilliantly reversing ) Dante's translation of his visiones into verba . The Disputa visually confirms Dante's credentials as a vernacular the- ologian of impeccable orthodoxy . If he were not what he appears to ...
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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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