PDF / SLIDES: Parallelisms between Dante's infrworlds and the Indo-Buddhist and shamanic tradition of Asia

We make available for download the slides we used in the two conferences on Dante and the inframondi in the oriental tradition - that of yesterday for UniTreEdu and that of today at the General States of Psychedelia in Italy 2021. The notes are based on our essay with the same title forthcoming in the annual register of the magazine Β«ARTHOSΒ», n. 30 / year 2021.

Considerations on the question of hierolanguage in the Middle Ages (II)

In its millennial path, medieval Christian philosophy finds itself facing the issues of the creation of the universe through the divine Word, of the Adamic language and of the post-Babelic confusion to which the multiplicity of human languages ​​is attributed. Despite the dogmatic adherence to the biblical canon and to the fundamental Platonic and Aristotelian references, important contributions to this study will come on the one hand from the esoteric doctrine of Judaism, the Kabbalah, on the other from the work of Dante Alighieri.

The plague and the simulacra of social control in Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura"

In "De Rerum Natura", written during the republican era and rediscovered only in the fifteenth century, Lucretius stages the description of the Athens plague of 430 BC: the picture is deliberately bleak and bears the mythical features of the space-time indefiniteness that characterizes the crepuscular epochs. Once the subjects and the space-time horizons have definitively fallen, what remains is a gloomy picture of death with spectacular and macabre shapes, which the author nevertheless uses to convey an ethical criticism, making use of a solemnly rich lexicon of archaisms, capable of to probe unexplored places of the human soul and of the word itself.