Il raggio di luce e la mitezza: una lettura del Paradiso dantesco

Abstract

The metaphor of light is considered among the “metaphorical” ones that Blumenberg defines as “absolute”, as they are capable of representing the “whole” of the world, otherwise inexpressible. Light and the terms related to it constitute perhaps the most prolific semantic field in the symbolic construction of the human imagination and is configured as a fundamental archetype, on which language has drawn since the dawn of universal literature. In his book Like a ray in the water. Dante and the relationship with the other, La Porta makes an original reading of Dante's Paradise, traveling a journey, which at times may appear reckless but always brilliantly justified, through metaphorical images that draw on the semantic field of light and that innervate the Third Canticle, with a careful look at what they can communicate to our post-contemporary world.