TY - JOUR
TI - Usura, protocapitalismo e Giotto nel canto XVII dell’Inferno di Dante
AU - Balducci, Marino Alberto
TI - Usura, protocapitalismo e Giotto nel canto XVII dell’Inferno di Dante
AB - 
	In this hermeneutical study on a canto that represents the emblematic center of all Dante’s Inferno, we find a reflection about the extensive network of symbols which is related with the vice of greed, highlighting for the first time the hidden kinship between apparently different faults: usury, blasphemy and sodomy. Geryon the monster appears at the beginning, connecting us with mercantilism as
	a socio-historical phenomenon rapidly evolving when Europe sees its transition from feudalism to proto-capitalism. Later, the animalized figure of Reginaldo Scrovegni, in this same alienating context (the sole infernal canto which is entirely coloured as a fresco), suggests the implicit, ironic and disturbing presence of Giotto, with a secret moral reference (as a cruel contrappasso) to his famous masterpiece of Padua. Immediate horror and beauty come grotesquely together thus, in this hellish space, with
	a specific and surprising sarcastic power
VL - Tom 16 (2016)
IS - Tom 16, Numer 3
PY - 2016
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 147
EP - 155
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.16.013.5934
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/usura-protocapitalismo-e-giotto-nel-canto-xvii-dellinferno-di-dante
KW - Divine Comedy
KW - Giotto
KW - homosexuality
KW - scatology
KW - usury