“In voce assai più che la nostra viva” (Pg. XXVII 9). Ancora qualche esempio sulle trasformazioni musicali interne al percorso purgatoriale.

Abstract

Due to the considerable increase of Dante studies focused on musicological themes as a recent academic phenomenon, in this paper we propose to revisit certain topoi in the Commedia characterized by the presence of musical vocabulary. We will examine some passages of the second cantica that are specially marked by the use of that kind of terminology. We will try to demonstrate that an analysis of these, isolated by the literary context of reference, does not do justice to the elaborated linguistic and ideologic construction of the poem. Thus, the scientific disciplines concerning the musical studies should necessarily be put to use in the overall interpretation of the text.