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Dante's Burning Sands: Some New Perspectives

Dante's Burning Sands: Some New Perspectives

Scaglione, Aldo
D'Antoni, Francesca

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Italian Culture, Book 4

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0820414735
ISBN13: 9780820414737
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: May 1 1992
Pages: 181
Language: English
This study illuminates some dark passages at the center of the Commedia's three canticles, revealing the poem's artistic integrity in ways hitherto unperceived. Dante's Sodom is a crematorium of all dead empires, where his fellow aristocrats join other Italian nobles, later judged in Purgatorio and Paradiso, as perverters of their holy seed of Roman nobility. All sinned against God, Nature and Art by subordinating their divine gift of human intelligence to beastly instincts, abusing power and privilege for material gain - a practice abhorrent to a true Roman. Having undergone metempsychosis, they resemble Homeric beasts pastured by Circe in Dante's typological circle of burning sands in the Inferno.

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