Ulysses and the limits of Dante's humanism = Ulisse o dei limiti dell'umanesimo dantesco / Lino Pertile.

Main entry:

Pertile, Lino, author.

Title & Author:

Ulysses and the limits of Dante's humanism = Ulisse o dei limiti dell'umanesimo dantesco / Lino Pertile.

Publication:

Florence, Italy : I Tatti ; Rome : Officina libraria, [2023]
[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : Worldwide distribution by Harvard University Press
©2023

Description:

79 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series:

Villa I Tatti Series ; 36

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).
Parallel text in English and Italian.

Summary:

"In his description of Ulysses in Canto XXVI of the Inferno, Dante subjected the legendary Greek hero to a thoroughgoing revision. The Homeric Ulysses, after ten years of war and a further ten of fabulous adventures throughout the Mediterranean, returns home to Ithaca and resumes his position as son, father, husband, and king of the island. In contrast, Dante's Ulysses--and that of Tennyson, inspired by Dante and so beloved in America--is an ingenious but profoundly restless character who, in his unceasing quest for knowledge, novelty, and happiness, finds not fulfillment but death. His tragic story embodies the dilemma that human intelligence poses for our civilization today, torn between the endless pursuit of innovation and its ever more catastrophic risks."--Back cover.
"Nella sua evocazioine di Ulisse nel canto XXVI dell'Inferno Dante sottopone la storia dell'eroe greco a una radicale riscrittura. A differenza dell'Ulisse omerico che, dopo vent'anni di guerra e avventure ritorna a casa, l'Ulisse dantesco--e sul suo modello quello di Tennyson, tanto amato in America--è un eroe ingegnosissimo, ma supremamente inquieto, la cui incessante ricerca dell'ignoto non conduce a qualche grado di appagamento ma alla morte. Un eroe tragico, la cui esperienza incarna il dilemma di fronte al quale l'ingegno umano pone la nostra civiltà, divisa tra l'ossessiva ricerca dell'innovazioine e i rischi sempre più catastrofici a cuui essa ci espone."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9788833672533 (Officina Libraria)
8833672530
9780674296190 (Harvard University Press)
0674296192

Subject:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Characters.
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) In literature.

Added entries:

Villa I Tatti (Series) ; 36.

Ulisse o dei limiti dell'umanesimo dantesco

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319163
Call No.: 319163
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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