Art and Divine Order in the Divina Commedia
The present essay focuses on a conflict between ethics and aesthetics in the Divina Commedia, and on the way in which Dante has tried to resolve it. Although bound up with a Christian view on History, he embeds, as a self-conscious modern artist, his secular stil novo poetics of earthly love in God&...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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Literature and theology
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 131-145 |
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| Summary: | The present essay focuses on a conflict between ethics and aesthetics in the Divina Commedia, and on the way in which Dante has tried to resolve it. Although bound up with a Christian view on History, he embeds, as a self-conscious modern artist, his secular stil novo poetics of earthly love in God's salvation plan for humankind. This conflict requires a relatively long ‘journey’ of interpretation and reconsideration, illustrated by concrete ‘case-studies’, the most famous being that of Francesca of Rimini in Inferno V. In accordance with medieval hermeneutics, Dante makes use of a palinodic dialectic in order to reconcile profane art with divine order. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frm008 |
