Giorgio Agamben and Dante Alighieri - possible theoretical reflections

Authors

  • Silvana de Gaspari Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2017v22n2p62

Abstract

Studying the Dante Alighieri’s poetry is more important than studying only the medieval era and its literary representations; it is also to glimpse survival perspective, which is brought to us by ways that are not always very calm, being guided through rhizomes that organize and disorganize themselves around the author. Thus, thinking of this rhizome, on evolution of the book and of the world, the aim of this text is to view Dante as an idea originator. Giorgio Agamben is chosen as an interlocutor of the Florentine work, because he is a philosopher who shows his reflection in his most texts regarding medieval poetry work and it gives him the true light of contemporaneity that it seems to deserve. From this choice, concepts such as parody, comedy and tragedy, contemporaneity, limbo, prophecy and creation, power and glory, criticism, canon, sacred, and profane will be analyzed. Thinking regarding Dante from Giorgio Agamben’s reflections seems to be important, not only due to his thought span on actuality, but also to be someone that reflects Dante and for him to compose Giorgio many texts, which complement and renew themselves over time, according to the philosopher.

Author Biography

Silvana de Gaspari, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Graduada em Letras Português/Italiano pela UNESP-Araraquara, com mestrado em Literatura Italiana pela Universidade de São Paulo e doutorado em Teoria Literária pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Sua dissertação de mestrado tem como tema central o verismo italiano, com enfoque nos autores Giovanni Verga e Luigi Capuana, e sua tese de doutorado versa sobre a Divina Comédia e sua relação com dois textos apócrifos: Enoque e Isaías. Desde 1992, é professora do curso de letras italiano da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, no Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras. Tem hoje como foco principal de pesquisa dois projetos: o primeiro, sobre poesia italiana, parte de Dante Alighieri e chega aos poetas contemporâneos, identificando a percepção que estes autores têm do poeta florentino, e, o segundo, investiga o paratexto e está vinculado ao grupo de pesquisa do "Dicionário de Literatura Italiana Traduzida", desenvolvido em parceria entre a UFSC e a USP. Tem diversos livros publicados, entre eles as traduções de O mistério do mal e Pilatos e Jesus, de Giorgio Agamben, em parceria com a professora Patricia Peterle.

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Published

2017-12-14

How to Cite

DE GASPARI, Silvana. Giorgio Agamben and Dante Alighieri - possible theoretical reflections. Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 22, n. 2, p. 62–73, 2017. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2017v22n2p62. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2017v22n2p62. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Dossiê: "A literatura italiana sob a ótica de Giorgio Agamben"

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