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- Title
Anger and Imagination in Dante and Virgil.
- Authors
VERDICCHIO, MASSIMO
- Abstract
After accounting for wrath in Purgatory 16, Dante deals with how wrath relates to the poetic imagination in the first 45 lines of the next canto. His examples are the story of Procne and Philomela from Ovid's Metamorphosis, the story of Esther and Haman from the Old Testament, as retold by Brunetto Latini, and the story of Amata, the Queen of the Latins, from Virgil's Aeneid. At issue is how these stories, but Virgil's in particular, make use of the imagination to represent wrath. As I show in the paper, this is Dante's way of condemning the poetic imagination which, instead of resolving the problem of wrath, as Dante does in Purgatory 16, displaces it or misrepresents it.
- Subjects
PURGATORY; ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Dante; METAMORPHOSIS; OVID, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; LATINI, Brunetto; MYTHOLOGY
- Publication
Italica, 2018, Vol 95, Issue 4, p535
- ISSN
0021-3020
- Publication type
Article