I regni danteschi come allegorie della vita civile e dei suoi limiti. Su alcune implicazioni "politiche" della prima ricezione della Commedia
| Main Author: | Fiorentini, Luca |
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| Format: | Article |
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, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3740736 |
Daftar Isi:
- According to an ancient interpretive key, the representations of life after death elaborated by poets are always allegories of earthly life. The first commentators of Dante’s Comedy used this key to interpret the three reigns represented in the poem as allegories of the three different conditions of living people: the condition of living people ‘imprisoned’ by sins (Hell), the conditions of living people that are following a path of conversion and penitence (Purgatory), the condition of living people that achieved the perfection in virtues (Paradise). But concretely, who are the latter? In other words, what does it mean, according to the first commentators of Dante’s Comedy, to achieve perfection in this life? The essay examines the paths through which, in the course of the Fourteenth Century, Dante’s Paradise is interpreted – against Dante’s thought – as an allegory of the solitary life, intended as the place of actualization of a contemplative perfection which would not be achievable within civil society.