7/6/2023 0 Comments Inferno divine comedy“Nel mezzo” as a middle-point/meeting-point of cultural imbrication: to the traditional glosses of ”Nel mezzo”, which include Isaiah 38:10 and Horace’s Ars Poetica, I add: 1) the existential mezzo, from Aristotle’s definition of time as a “kind of middle-point” in the Physics (Aristotle on time is cited by Dante in the Convivio) and 2) the ethical mezzo, from Aristotle’s definition of virtue as residing at the mean (cited by Dante in the canzone Le dolci rime and later in the Convivio).The mixing of classical with Christian yields a uniquely hybrid “middling” textuality. A blueprint of the afterlife in three realms.1.39-40), initiating the creation of the universe Divine love - “l’amor divino” - first caused the stars to move ( Inf.
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