Author : Francesca Guerra D'Antoni
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Dante's Burning Sands by : Francesca Guerra D'Antoni
Download or read book Dante's Burning Sands written by Francesca Guerra D'Antoni and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.