La bestialità umana in Dante. Modelli e riscritture

: The essay investigates the presence in Dante of the ancient metaphor of the man-beast. Focused on Convivio and Comedia, the analysis reveals a strong occurrence of this image, derived from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, in the places of Dante’s work where ethical and political themes emerge. After analyzing some places particularly significant, the contribution ends with a reflection on Purgatorio XIV: the powerful and numerous images of bestiality present in this canto offer an adequate example of the poet’s tendency to read the descent of man in evil and matter in terms of a regression from the plane of rationality, civil and properly human, to that of the brute and formless sensuality.

Il saggio ricostruisce la metafora della bestialità umana nel Convivio e nella Commedia di Dante