La sinonimia tra proposizioni coordinate: expolitio e interpretatio nella Commedia di Dante [The synonymy between coordinated propositions: expolitio and interpretatio in Dante's Comedy]

Abstract

This contribution focuses on coordinated synonymous clauses in Dante’s Commedia. After having clarified the rhetorical value of this particular syntactic construction (with the help of both ancient and modern interpretations), the analysis focuses on its individual occurrences, illustrating the different ways in which the synonymic structure affects the text. All these different forms are shown to be one of the tools with which the author carried out his extraordinary research on vernacular language.

Keywords

• comedia
• dante
• dante alighieri
• commoratio
• dittology
• linguistics
• literature
• italian literature
• litereary criticism
• philology
• rhetorics
• divina commedia
• semantics