This paper focuses on the anabasis and katabasis narratives inspired by Dante in the works of the most representative Polish romantics: Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-1859) and Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821-1883). It was the Divina Commedia which exercised the greatest influence on the poets, especially Inferno, which became a forerunner of the Polish reality itself. But whereas Dante’s Inferno is identified with the underworld, the Polish Romantics’ locus horridus coincides with the actual world. If the Dantesque journey is a katabasis to the underworld, the descent portrayed by Polish poets is an anabasis towards a volcano crater covered with lava and ice. Moreover, according to the martyrological view, the Polish reality in those days was not only a place of suffering and tribulation, but also of expiation, which was a preparation for the arrival of paradise on Earth.
University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9116-8308
Titolo del capitolo
Et in Inferno ego! Sulle narrazioni di anabasi e catabasi d’ispirazione dantesca nelle opere dei romantici polacchi
Autori
Andrea F. De Carlo
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-2150-003-5.05
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Anno di pubblicazione
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Itinerari danteschi nelle culture slave
Curatori
Giovanna Siedina
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Anno di pubblicazione
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-2150-003-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-2150-003-5
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0013-4
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
e-ISSN della collana
2420-8361