Dalla visione ineffabile all’immaginazioane visionaria: La questione della lingua tra il «Paradiso» di Dante e la chôra platonica
Dante’s Comedy ends with the description of the unsuitableness of imagination and language in view of the mystic encounter with God. Nonetheless, the knowledge of God that subverts Dante’s life is shown through the whole poem as beginning, motive, and main theme of the narration itself, and...
| Published in: | Annali di studi religiosi |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2015
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Annali di studi religiosi
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| Summary: | Dante’s Comedy ends with the description of the unsuitableness of imagination and language in view of the mystic encounter with God. Nonetheless, the knowledge of God that subverts Dante’s life is shown through the whole poem as beginning, motive, and main theme of the narration itself, and this narration is entirely expressed in Dante’s own language. That is why there is an essential blend between the imaginative component of the work and the narrative epoché that brings the poem to its conclusion. It is perhaps the same extraordinary cohesion between the Word, in which God reveals himself, and the womb of his divinity; or between the womb that gives birth to humankind and its identity and the love that reveals the meaning of life, and makes it become word and finally come to fulfilment. The unsayable brightness of the Paradiso originates the language of all the three parts of the Comedy. The faculty that determines a person’s language is crucial for his or her everyday behaviour as well. Moreover, it concerns one’s own poetry dealing profoundly with love, with people, and with God. Perhaps even Plato and Aristotle had understood it: Dante, who dedicated his genius to language, shows the reader the divine nature of man’s striving for language. And this striving may be his very way to salvation. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14598/Annali_studi_relig_16201505 |