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Chapter Et in Inferno ego! Sulle narrazioni di anabasi e catabasi d’ispirazione dantesca nelle opere dei romantici polacchi
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022.
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Abstract
- This paper focuses on the anabasis and katabasis narratives inspired by Dante in the works of the most representative Polish romantics: Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-1859) and Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821-1883). It was the Divina Commedia which exercised the greatest influence on the poets, especially Inferno, which became a forerunner of the Polish reality itself. But whereas Dante’s Inferno is identified with the underworld, the Polish Romantics’ locus horridus coincides with the actual world. If the Dantesque journey is a katabasis to the underworld, the descent portrayed by Polish poets is an anabasis towards a volcano crater covered with lava and ice. Moreover, according to the martyrological view, the Polish reality in those days was not only a place of suffering and tribulation, but also of expiation, which was a preparation for the arrival of paradise on Earth.
Details
- Language :
- Italian
- ISBN :
- 979-1-221-50003-5
- ISSN :
- 24208361
- ISBNs :
- 9791221500035
- Database :
- OAPEN Library
- Notes :
- ONIX_20230501_9791221500035_129, , https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-2150-003-5_5
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- edsoap.20.500.12657.62713
- Document Type :
- chapter
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-2150-003-5.05