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Dante, modernità e tradizione nella memoria della Grande guerra
Dante, modernity and tradition in the memory of the Great War
Todero, Fabio
2022
Abstract
The essay intends to demonstrate the centrality of Dante and his greatest work, Divine Comedy, in the building of WWI memory in Italy. Many authors relied on Dantesque quotations and images to describe their terrible war experience. Dante was also largely used in war propaganda – newspapers, magazines, postcards – as one of the most significant symbols of the country. After the war, his Purgatory represented the model for one of the most important war cemeteries, while D’Annunzio – who had already relied on Dante’s words in May 1915 – symbolically linked Dante’s Hell to the Karst front.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Fabio Todero, "Dante, modernità e tradizione nella memoria della Grande guerra" in: "Qualestoria. Rivista di storia contemporanea. L, N.ro 2, Dicembre 2022", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2022, pp. 245-256
Languages
it
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internazionale
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