TY - JOUR
TI - The Spectacle of Guilt in the Tenth Trench (bolgia) of Dante’s Hell: The Case of Master Adam and the Greek Sinon
AU - Maślanka-Soro, Maria
TI - The Spectacle of Guilt in the Tenth Trench (bolgia) of Dante’s Hell: The Case of Master Adam and the Greek Sinon
AB - 
This essay aims to analyse one of the episodes in which the action goes on in the tenth trench (Italian: bolgia) of the eighth circle of Dante’s Hell, where the falsifiers of things, words, money, and persons lie stricken with hideous diseases that are their contrapasso and should be interpreted allegorically. My attention is focused upon the protagonist of the Canto XXX, the Englishman Master Adam that counterfeited Florentine coins (on which the portrait of the patron saint of the city, St John the Baptist, was engraved), his dialogue with Dante, as well as the spectacular quarrel between him and the Greek Sinon who convinced the Trojans to bring the famous wooden horse into the city. The analyse concerns particular dramatic and theatrical strategies, as well as rhetoric means on account of which the entire scene assumes highly performative character. I also try to clarify and interpret the semantic dimension of some singular points of the episode.  
VL - 2017
IS - Volume 12, Issue 3
PY - 2018
SN - 1897-3035
C1 - 2084-3933
SP - 209
EP - 222
DO - 10.4467/20843933ST.17.017.7583
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/le-spectacle-de-la-faute-dans-la-dixieme-bolge-de-lenfer-de-dante-le-cas-de-maitre-adam-et-de-sinon
KW - Dante
KW - The Divine Comedy
KW - Hell
KW - Master Adam
KW - Greek Sinon
KW - guilt
KW - contrapasso
KW - theatricality