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Article: L'esperienza di Dante exul immeritus quale autobiografia universale *.(effect of exile on Dante's literary works)(article in Italian)(Critical essay)
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- Annali d'Italianistica
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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In his "L'esperienza di Dante 'exul immeritus' quale autobiografia universale," Giuseppe De Marco analyzes, by means of textual and intertextual examples, the most noble manner in which Dante lived, accepted, and transformed his exilic condition, which to us, through a perspective of seven centuries, appears to have affected and enhanced the Florentine and greatest Italian poet's oeuvre to a sublime and unsurpassed level. In the second half of his essay, an excursus from Petrarch to our times, De Marco in fact points out the extent to which Dante's noblest transformation of his exilic condition forms a constant point of reference throughout the centuries for all those who ...