Per entrare in Paradiso
ISSN: 2611 - 1489
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
Description
Per entrare in Paradiso
Dialoghi del Rinascimento alle soglie dell’aldilà
Between the last years of the fifteenth century and the second half of the sixteenth century, several dialogues were conceived, composed in Latin or in the vernacular, set on the threshold of the afterlife. The same narrative situation is proposed in these writings: a soul that reaches the threshold of paradise and claims its right to enter, sometimes because of its good deeds, sometimes because of the role it had held in life. This situation often portrays the soul of a pope (Julius II or Leo X) rejected by the first pontiff, Peter, on the exemplary model offered by the Iulius exclusus attributed to Erasmus. The present volume reconstructs this plot through the study of the works of Antonio de Ferrariis Galateo, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Andrea Guarna, Nicolò Franco, Celio Secondo Curione, and Agostino Vanzo.
Author
Sebastiano Valerio is a full professor at the University of Foggia, where he teaches Italian Literature. He has studied Southern Humanism and specifically Antonio Galateo, of whom he published the dialogue Eremita (Rome 2009) and on whom he has written numerous essays. He has been interested in Dante and his fortune. He has studied Italian culture between the 19th and 20th centuries and Giovanni Pascoli. He has worked on the medical-scientific tradition and genre literature.
