Dante e gli alter ego
ISSN: 2166-3163
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Iniziative Editoriali Srl
Description
Dante e gli alter ego. Studi sul Purgatorio
'Heterodossa' is the hermeneutics used by the author in this eccentric volume of essays; and it was indispensable that it should take place in this way, because indeed the opus Dantesque itself is a heterodox witness within the Italian literature. Who does not realize it in time, misses any interpretative target; who misinterprets it, contributes to energize the exegetical tradition that for seven hundred years misrepresents the occult message of Dante's writings. Because the things, animals and characters that animate the poetic world of Dante are not filling figures, but symbols that tell something about the existential adventure experienced by the poet. They are the messengers sent by Dante to make us participate in his intellectual life (ie political, religious and literary): only that they speak in an allegorical language, which is up to us readers to interpret. In fact, Dante's writings, above all of the Commedia, could be said of what St. Jerome said of the Apocalypse, in Epistle LIII ad Paulinum: "Tot habet sacramenta, quot verba; parum pro merit voluminis: laus omnis inferior est, in verbis singulis multiplices latent intelligentiae ». One way to reach the likely interpretation of the Dante's intelligentsia is that which the author has set out to show to the reader of this volume.
