Abstract

LACORTE, Rocco. Notes on language and politics in Dante. A gramscian reading. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2017, vol.31, n.62, pp.1089-1109.  Epub Mar 09, 2021. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.issn.0102-6801.v31n62a2017-p1089a1109.

Starting from Antonio Gramsci’s conception of the relationship between language and politics and dialectically challenging the ideas of some important intellectuals and critics of Dante’s work, I intend to put forward both some considerations for laying an alternative interpretation of Dante’s linguistic theory, taken as an expression of the social and political innovations of his times, and illuminate some filological implications that these considerations can have in relation to the texts I am going to examine. In the De vulgari eloquentia, one can see one of the most eminent forms of Dante’s reaction against the disruption of the political unity of the Italian peninsula and the disintegration of the groups that came to light after the XIth Century A.C. This reaction turns into the highest form of awareness throughout Dante’s development of the question of language and its correspondent theory. The movement of this growing awareness becomes more and more visible along the path that (self-)critically connects the Convivio to the Comedy, through the De vulgari.

Keywords : Dante; Language; Politics; De vulgari eloquentia; Convivium; Commedy.

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