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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ashmolean Museum
ISBN-10
1910807494
ISBN-13
9781910807491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8050402057
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dante : the Invention of Celebrity
Number of Pages
64 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European / Italian
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Art, Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Length
10.4 in
Item Width
7.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
851.1
Table Of Content
'The central man of all the world' Damned Celebrity; Fame Redeemed The Image of the Poet The Mirror of Fame: In Dante's Company The Price of Fame: Commercial Dante The Path to Fame in Popular Culture Selected Highlights Image: Work in Progress Further Reading Acknowledgements
Synopsis
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., * Dante is a much-published author, and in this seventh centenary year of his death, many volumes will be added to the bibliography* An accessible engagement with the visual iconography of the poet himself and of the diverse illustrations to the Divine Comedy is not available in English (and there is little in other languages)* Oxford collections, and the Ashmolean Museum in particular, for historical reasons (Oxford was a major centre of Dante studies from the late-nineteenth century) are well able to do something like justice to this themeDante (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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