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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... thought " is not much help at this point , if it ever was , for its purpose was to aid ordinary human minds struggling at a great dis- tance from God to understand the uniqueness of divine existence.2 That's not Dante's problem in the ...
... thoughts at the oltraggio moment in the final canto . With so much failing him ( his memory , his speech , his very capacity to know ) at the culmination of his ascent , we may easily be tempted to perceive his out - of - bounds ...
... thought of the fresco , " said that it was a very disgraceful thing to have made in so honourable a place all those nude figures showing their nakedness so shamelessly , and that it was a work not for the chapel of a Pope , but for a ...
... thought that the poet's “ private belief becomes a different thing in poetry . " ' 39 What it has become through poetic transmutation is a vital component of something permanently public , a grand artistic design , a self - contained ...
... thought to have been a Jubilee pilgrim himself , or at least an eye - witness to the huge crowds of penitents who crossed the Tiber on the Ponte Sant'Angelo en route to St. Peter's basilica . Hav- ing been in Rome for the World Pride ...
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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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