An early literary description of emotional syncope in the Fifth Canto of Dante Alighieriʼs Commedia
| Autor: | Estañol, Bruno, Delgado, Guillermo, Jiménez-Mayo, Eduardo, Sentíes-Madrid, Horacio, Horacio Sentíes, Madrid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Famous Persons Medicine in Literature Emotions Poetry as Topic Cardiology Syncope World literature Medieval history Literature Medieval Humans Medicine Dead body Literature geography geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry Divine comedy Fell General Medicine Canto History Medieval Italy First person Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Syncope (phonology) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine. 15:604-608 |
| ISSN: | 1558-2027 |
| DOI: | 10.2459/jcm.0b013e3283644c0c |
| Popis: | Dante's Divine Comedy is universally acclaimed as one of the great masterpieces in world literature. It is written in first person singular and this gives an intimate acquaintance with the vision of the poet. In the Fifth Canto, he exquisitely describes the story of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini, illicit lovers killed by Francesca's husband, Gianciotto Malatesta. The story, dramatically told by Francesca, deeply moves the poet, who suddenly faints. In the words of Dante himself: 'E caddi come corpo morto cade' (And fell, even as a dead body falls). This probably is the first literary description of an emotional syncope in world literature. We found that three great plastic artists (John Flaxman, William Blake and Gustave Doré) captured the crucial moment of the syncope in three extraordinary images left for posterity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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