Dante

Summary

Dominique Pagani almost always refers to the Divine Comedy. He often returns to the "selva selvaggia" at the opening of the Inferno: it illustrates the savage as the one who enters the forest1, and he uses it to evoke the forest without animals and to shed light on the German word Wald, a forest where fear is renewed within thought2. He often draws on Dante to read Nerval. The "diritta via" is the straight path from which a female voice turns Nerval away3. As in Dante, the characters repeat for eternity the scene that marked their lives4, and the circles of hell or purgatory reappear in the little girls' round dance and in the small towns frozen in a memory. Regarding Wagner, he reports that, according to Nietzsche, only Dante reaches the compassion of the Parsifal prelude5. He also notes that Dante founds Italian literature, that he is guided by Virgil from hell to paradise, and that the "guardai in alto" shows the value the language gives to what is high6.

1. 1S for Savagery2 Jan 2015 · 2:54
2. 2#9.18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation3 Apr 2021 · 21:14
3. 3#4 Nomad and sedentary: the case of Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 7:10
4. 4#3 Nomad or sedentary? The case of Nerval6 Jun 2021 · 50:28
5. 5#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:21:27
6. 6Secularism, the truth of religion?18 Feb 2024 · 1:29:04

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