Abstract
Autore:
Campanella Raffaele
Titolo:
"L’Argentina e Dante: una relazione particolare"
In view of its historic, ethnic and cultural specificity, within Latin America Argentina boasts a particular relationship with Dante. Several generations of Argentinian writers have measured themselves with Dante’s work in different ways, drawing from it material and inspiration for works of different genres (essays, poetry, novels etc.). Argentina is the only Hispanic-American country that has produced two complete and several partial translations of the Divina Commedia, as well as housing in its capital a building designed as a tribute to Dante’s masterpiece. Within the Argentinian scenario the great writer Jorge Luis Borges is in a class of his own, in terms both of the extraordinary loyalty that he demonstrated throughout his life to Dante and the Divina Commedia (the “apex of world literature”), and in terms of the richness and variety of Borges’ writings inspired by subjects from Dante.
