Il lettore innamorato - Studi danteschi

In this volume the author has collected his journey as a reader in love with the Commedia. Written in moments and for different occasions (from 1973 to 2016), this critical yet fragmented production highlights the message that the author has drawn from the reading of the work and which can be gathered around three basic considerations. The Comedy is a sort of modern Bible, written by a believer, new scribe Dei, who knew how to listen to the Voice and who interpreted the past as contemporary to point out to others, believer and non-believers, that the laws codified by Christ were a recovery, a revival of those that the man of every past age had codified as their moral laws. Dante assumes, therefore, the role of teacher who re-introduces the ancient and the contemporary history to men in the light of these "eternal laws" so that man can be happy on this earth, reaching that last True that is a guarantee of eternal happiness. Through the exemplification of his journey to that Truth, adding his own experiences as a Christian, politician, scholar, philosopher and theologian, persecuted and exiled, Dante reconstructs his personal story of a sinful man in a poetic story, who was able to understand his status and to reach, with the help of the Faith, through a journey through the realms of the afterlife, to the ultimate Truth.

Author

Raffaele Giglio is Italian literature professor at University of Naples Federico II and is the head editor of “Critica Letteraria”.
His research activity has always been focused, beside on Dante, on the XVIII century (with a specific focus on Salfi, Serio and De Fonseca) and on the XIX century, with a particular focus on the relationships between literature and journalism and painting and poetry. Moreover, he handled many works of Salfi, Serio, Imbriani, Scarfoglio, Serao, Fallani, Siani. He is the director of the work named “Napoli, città d’autore. Un racconto letterario da Boccaccio a Saviano” (2008-2010).