«Non lungi al valicar di nostra vita»: Bernardo Bellini e la riscrittura dell’Inferno dantesco in occasione delle celebrazioni del 1865

Abstract

The article is dedicated to L’Inferno della Tirannide by Bernardo Bellini, a poem on the First Italian War of Independence which is also a bouts-rimés version of Dante’s Inferno. The first theme considered is the sixth centenary of Dante’s birth (1865), for which the poem was published. The next section is a summary of Bellini’s bio-bibliography, intending to give an appropriate contextualization. The rest of the essay consists in the analysis of the text, in order to recognize some links with some historical sources, and to consider the relationship between Bellini’s poem and Dante’s Commedia.

Keywords

• dante studies
• dante’s centenary
• dante’s inferno
• risorgimento studies
• 19th century
• dante alighieri
• dante
• bernardo bellini
• l'inferno della tirannide