| RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
| Anno XXII , n° 2, Dicembre 2004 ( Contributi ) | pag. 1-21 |
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| THE SEXUAL PILGRIM, TRANSFIGURATION, AND THE WORLD: THE POETICS OF SOCIETY IN THE DANTEAN VISION OF LOVE | |
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| ROBERT DI PEDE | |
| Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey |
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| A good century before Dante's birth, some eight-hundred kilometers northwest of Florence, the Cathedral of Autun was being erected; Gislebertus, master craftsman and sculptor, was chiseling in the tympanum and lintel of the west portal a dramatic and gory portrayal of the Last Judgment (c. 1120-35)2. A careful scrutiny of the relief's most salient features - the weighing of the souls by the Archangel Michael, the deformed and emaciated representation of the sinners' bodies, and the separation of the blessed and the damned to heaven and hell - recalls the motif of contrapasso in Dante's Commedia. While it is perhaps a little crass to see in Gislebertus a direct inspiration for Dante's work, it would not be precipitous to see in the content of the Commedia a metonymic representation for the twelfth and thirteenth century of what André Vauchez has identified as a pervasive metanoia3. | |
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