[lbo-talk] Dante's Sodomites (Re: Michelangelo)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 30 09:42:56 PDT 2007


The Violent Against Nature, or whatever that is in Italian.

I always loved how systematic Dante's god is. Sodomites go here; gluttons go here; suicides go here; with a thick layer of people Dante personally didn't like everywhere. It's so Thomist.

--- Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:


> Yoshie Furuhashi asked:
>
> > Who were Dante's sodomites, however?
>
> Since they're grouped with userers, they are
> presumably the kind
> whose "love" is sterile in contrast to the "love" of
> that "Good"
> which when shared increases in amount (Purgatorio,
> Canto XV, lines
> 42-75).
>
> Ted
>
>
>
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