Poetics Of Redemption

The Essays On Dante Collected In This Volume Interpret His Commedia As The Attempt Of A Renewal Of The Christian Work Of Salvation By Means Of Literature. In The View Of His Author, The Sacro Poema Responds To A Historical Moment Of Extreme Danger, In Which Nothing Less Than The Redemption Of Mankind Is At Stake. The Degradation Of The Medieval Roman Empire And The Rise Of An Early Capitalism In His Birth Town Florence, Entailing A Pernicious Moral Depravation For Dante, Are To Him Nothing Else But A Variety Of Symptoms Of The Backfall Of The World Into Its State Prior To Its Salvation By The Incarnation Of Christ.