ABSTRACT

The article investigates the significance of the ‘turbo’ imagery that Dante adds at the end of Ulysses’s tale (Inferno xxvi) as a possible key to decoding the nature of this character’s sin. It argues that, in the style of the ancient fable, Dante devised the end of Ulysses’s story in order to make its moral message understandable to a lay, non-academic, readership. To achieve such broad, Gospel-like communication, the poet probably relied on moral interpretations of the turbo imagery that would have been popular in his time. Through an intertextual discussion of several medieval sources available to the poet, the article shows that the turbo would have been a fitting contrapasso for the sin of the evil counsellor, and shows the relevance of this moral category to describe the sin of intellectual curiositas as well.

摘要

本文研究了但丁在尤利西斯的故事结尾（地狱 xxv​​i）中添加的“涡轮”图像的重要性，该图像是解码该角色的罪恶性质的可能关键。它认为，但丁以古老寓言的风格设计了尤利西斯故事的结尾，目的是使非道德的，非学术的读者理解其道德信息。为了实现如此广泛的，类似于福音的传播，这位诗人可能依赖于对涡轮增压意象的道德诠释，而这种诠释在他的时代会很流行。通过对几个中世纪的来源提供给诗人，文章指出，互文讨论的涡轮增压本来可以作为邪恶顾问的罪恶的适当反击，并且表明了这种道德范畴对于描述知识分子好奇心的罪恶也具有相关性。