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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... Truth . be The collocation of “ Dante ” with “ Unorthodox ” in the title may taken in several different ways . As a provocative signpost in the contigu- ous fields of intellectual and doctrinal history , the title most obviously refers ...
... Truth but also to highlight his fantastic invulnerability to official charges of unorthodoxy levelled at him by a corrupted earthly Magisterium . Even as Dominic's invincible energy as a champion of the Faith corresponds at a cultural ...
... the Church Militant in the fourth century . In theory , orthodoxy ought to be a vision of God's Invincible Truth gloriously apparent to the eyes of all the faithful . It is certainly that in the Heaven INTRODUCTION 21.
... truth out of the Unorthodox under torture , a mode of persuasion lamentably still practised for the sake of ideological purifi- cation . The relentlessly textual impetus of orthodoxy to define and tar- get its opponents , as Dante's ...
... proper theological response to this low fantasy is to discard it , for the allegory of the theologians demands that truth be rooted in his- tory literaliter . Dante heads this reflexive critique off at the pass with INTRODUCTION 23.
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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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