Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of TransgressionJames L. Miller Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 22 apr. 2005 - 566 pagini 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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... vita . Challenging the Dominicans to recover their inquisitorial vigour , Bonaventure concludes ironically that they have lost the celebrated zeal for rooting out heresy where it truly lies . For Dante , as for Dominic , heresy lies out ...
... vita ] ( Inf . 1.1 ) , down which we all must go , impelled by time and the stars . Like Dante , we must resolve to digress . The choice is ours to take the poet's unexpected detour into the depths , to brave the unknown along his ...
... vita or “ happy life . ” 7 See the gloss on Par . 1.70 in Singleton ( 1975 ) , 18 ; Freccero ( 1986 ) , 209–20 ; and the extensive discussion of Bernard's comparable term deificari in chapter 6 of Botterill ( 1994 ) . 8 Pound ( 1953 ) ...
... Vita Sancti Antonini . Acta Sanctorum . May , vol.1 . Ed . Godefridus Henschenius . Antwerp : apud Joannem Mevrsium , 1680 . 310-58 . Creehan , Joseph . " Limbo . " A Catholic Dictionary of Theology . Vol . 3. London : Nelson , 1971 ...
... vita 27 ( PL 75 , col . 57 : the source of the Latin quotations ) , which dates from the eighth century ; and John the Deacon's Sancti Gregorii Magni vita II 44 ( PL 75 , cols . 104-6 ) , which dates from the late ninth century . 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 |