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Darrera modificació: 2025-12-29
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Kiltinavičiūtė, Aistė, "‘E caddi come corpo morto cade': Fainting fits, swooning spells, and near-death experiences between Dante's Vita nova and Commedia", Italian Studies, (2025), 1-15.
- Resum
- This article examines the episodes of swooning and near-fainting in Dante from a perspective informed by medieval medical science. I argue that Dante, alongside coeval authors, draws extensively on the nexus of swooning, near-death experiences, and visionary perception, based on the parallel aetiologies and symptomatologies of these conditions. Representing the physiological processes involved with great precision, the poet exploits the twofold potential of medieval syncope as simultaneously a form of physical illness and a symbolic gateway into alternative forms of reality. Vita nova XIV in particular intertwines the vocabularies of death, resurrection, and Transfiguration to represent Dante's near-faint as a fusion between a relatively conventional expression of lovesickness and a transformative quasi-visionary experience.
- Matèries
- Història de la literatura
Medicina
Dante
Recepció
- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2025.2586856
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