Modelli di santità nella Commedia: il caso di Pier Damiani

The paper focuses on the canto XXI of Paradise. In particular, the construction of the cosmological landscape and its superimposition on the level of ethical reading will be examined in order to reconstruct the semiotics of the world (Greimas 1966) of Dante's time. For this purpose, the theory of sign production will be used (Eco 1975). Attention will also be paid to the figure of Pier Damiani as a model of holiness proposed by Dante, deepening its ethical-political implications.