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Dante - The Invention of Celebrity (Paperback)
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Dante - The Invention of Celebrity (Paperback)
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Loot Price R379
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Dante (the seventh centenary of whose death is being marked in
2021), the author of one of the greatest works of European
literature, has also inspired a wealth of images which, themselves,
continue to shape our perceptions of the poet as visionary; of
romantic love and political corruption; and of hell and salvation,
whether understood in the context of this world or another. At the
core of the Comedy and of its related visual images is the
emblematic significance of the lives of individual persons. Dante
may be considered the inventor of our modern ideas of fame and
celebrity. He was the first person who, though of no particular
distinction in the world - a mere poet - became a celebrity in his
own lifetime. And in the Comedy, Dante made famous individuals
about whom we should otherwise know nothing. For the first time,
poetry turned obscurities into household names - the doomed
adulterous lovers, Paolo and Francesca; Ciacco the glutton; the
gentle personality of La Pia. The radical democracy of Dante's
perspective had no precedent. Dante also questioned the
significance and value of worldly fame. His reflection on the human
desire for notoriety is paradigmatic for our own society of
spectacle, in which (as Andy Warhol predicted) 'everyone will be
world-famous for five minutes'. Dante himself was keenly aware of
religious warnings about the futility of worldly vanity; yet he
arrived at a personal conviction that the earthly fame of the poet
could none the less be a force for good.
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