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

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Aug 30 09:56:58 PDT 2007


Systematization was the middle name of the middle ages: indexes, table of contents, punctuation, musical notation, spaces between words, .....

...not too shabby, really.

Joanna

Chris Doss wrote:


>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:
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>>Yoshie Furuhashi asked:
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>>>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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