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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... 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 aesthetic unity accessible to anyone who enters imagina- tively ...
... things . Papal Rome seems very far away . Compared with the lily - scented auditorium of the Stellatum , the Seat of the Catholic Faith has become a theatre of cruelty where Peter's own burial ground has been turned into a " sewer of ...
... things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen . It rains down upon humanity through the grace of the Holy Spirit . Its Divine origin is proved through the miracles recorded in the Old and New Tes- taments . That his theological ...
... things ) , and , as a result , Dante's treatment of Limbo can best be characterized as rev- olutionary and extremely heterodox from a theological perspective . The theological newness of Dante's Limbo is extraordinary , as Giorgio ...
... thing as a completely blameless pagan even as he dis- penses with the concept of implicit faith , fashioning a drama of the vir- tuous pagans which highlights the insufficiency of human reason along 70 PART I ‡ TRAPASSAR.
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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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