This contribution surveys the occurrences of the terms related to woodland places in the "Commedia" and analyses the types of forest landscape described in Dante’s poem, connected to symbolic scenarios: among them the thick of human perdition represented by the “gloomy wood” of the incipit, the unnaturalness of suicide envisaged in the dry and degraded vegetation of the infernal wood of canto XIII, the primordial condition of innocence of the uncontaminated forest of Eden. The investigation enlarges on some other authors (Boccaccio, Ariosto, Manzoni, Carducci) who have variously developed, with either a comic or an ‘existential’ tone (the forest as the maze of an altered consciousness), the features of the forest opening and ending Dante’s earthly path.

Uomini fummo, e or siam fatti sterpi : nature arboree e metamorfosi vegetali nella selva dantesca / A.M. Salvadè (TRINIDAD). - In: Selve : tra geografia e letteratura / [a cura di] A.M. Salvadè. - Milano - Udine : Mimesis, 2015. - ISBN 9788857534435. - pp. 97-113 (( convegno Boschi, selve e foreste: studi geografici e immaginario letterario tenutosi a Milano nel 2013.

Uomini fummo, e or siam fatti sterpi : nature arboree e metamorfosi vegetali nella selva dantesca

A.M. Salvadè
2015

Abstract

This contribution surveys the occurrences of the terms related to woodland places in the "Commedia" and analyses the types of forest landscape described in Dante’s poem, connected to symbolic scenarios: among them the thick of human perdition represented by the “gloomy wood” of the incipit, the unnaturalness of suicide envisaged in the dry and degraded vegetation of the infernal wood of canto XIII, the primordial condition of innocence of the uncontaminated forest of Eden. The investigation enlarges on some other authors (Boccaccio, Ariosto, Manzoni, Carducci) who have variously developed, with either a comic or an ‘existential’ tone (the forest as the maze of an altered consciousness), the features of the forest opening and ending Dante’s earthly path.
Dante; Commedia; selva; bosco; foresta
Settore L-FIL-LET/10 - Letteratura Italiana
2015
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