Dante’s exile as an ideological construction (Paradiso XVII)

  • Juan Varela-Portas de Orduña Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFRM.2011.38714
Keywords: exile, Dante Alighieri, Cacciaguida, Christ’s sacrifice, history of Florence, faith, personal identity.

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This essay inquires into Dante’s exile as it is displayed in Paradiso XVII, pointing out its nature as an ideological construction inside a christian feudal conception. Dante’s exile is useful to give several meanings concerning Christ’s faith and sacrifice, but also to get into an exile’s conception as a personal identity crisis, not only social but psychic or ontological as well.

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Juan Varela-Portas de Orduña, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Departamento de Filología Italiana

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Varela-Portas de Orduña J. (2012). Dante’s exile as an ideological construction (Paradiso XVII). Revista de Filología Románica, 415-423. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFRM.2011.38714
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2011: Anejo VII
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