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This book is a major re-appraisal of the Commedia as originally
envisaged by Dante: as a work of ethics. Privileging the ethical,
Corbett increases our appreciation of Dante's eschatological
innovations and literary genius. Drawing upon a wider range of
moral contexts than in previous studies, this book presents an
overarching account of the complex ordering and political programme
of Dante's afterlife. Balancing close readings with a lucid
overview of Dante's Commedia as an ethical and political manifesto,
Corbett cogently approaches the poem through its moral structure.
The book provides detailed interpretations of three particularly
significant vices - pride, sloth, and avarice - and the three
terraces of Purgatory devoted to them. While scholars register
Dante's explicit confession of pride, the volume uncovers Dante's
implicit confession of sloth and prodigality (the opposing subvice
of avarice) through Statius, his moral cypher.
Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian,
depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God's divine
justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is
mortal and that all religion is vain superstition. And yet Epicurus
is, for Dante, not only the quintessential heretic but an ethical
ally.
This book is a major re-appraisal of the Commedia as originally
envisaged by Dante: as a work of ethics. Privileging the ethical,
Corbett increases our appreciation of Dante's eschatological
innovations and literary genius. Drawing upon a wider range of
moral contexts than in previous studies, this book presents an
overarching account of the complex ordering and political programme
of Dante's afterlife. Balancing close readings with a lucid
overview of Dante's Commedia as an ethical and political manifesto,
Corbett cogently approaches the poem through its moral structure.
The book provides detailed interpretations of three particularly
significant vices - pride, sloth, and avarice - and the three
terraces of Purgatory devoted to them. While scholars register
Dante's explicit confession of pride, the volume uncovers Dante's
implicit confession of sloth and prodigality (the opposing subvice
of avarice) through Statius, his moral cypher.
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