Signatures that emerge from the dantesque Comedy

Abstract

Agamben Giorgio, in elaborating the book Signatura Rerum (2008), affirms that it is possible to investigate the past, to arrive at the paradigm, defined as an analogical knowledge. Agamben also talks about the signature, the language of the world, from which one perceives the inner spirit of things in its exteriority, in addition to defining philosophical archeology, at a time when knowledge and discourse are constituted. Michel Foucault, the Italian philosopher, argues that "archeology is the science of ruins, practice, which investigates history not by origin, but as the emergence of the phenomenon." (AGAMBEM, 2008, p. 121). In this case, phenomena and signs emerge as examples of the Divine Comedy, from the poem, emerge characters from greek mythology, philosophers and poets, among them mantuano Virgilio, and other characters. These singularities identified in the Comedy are objects for a possible intertwining with Agamben's concept of signature.