Dante apocalittico e i Commenti all'Apocalisse (secoli XII-XIII)

[Autom. eng. transl.] In manifesting the assets of the afterlife, Dante uses figures and symbols drawn from the prophetic and apocalyptic heritage, in turn creating original apocalyptic paintings, concerning the constitution, history, present condition and future destiny of Christianity. The contribution focuses on the three points of the Comedy in which the use of elements derived from the Apocalypse and its interpreters is most evident. A renewed consideration of the apocalyptic sections of Inferno XIX, Paradiso XXVII and the so-called "Dante's Apocalypse", presented in the cantos from XXIX to XXXIII of the Purgatory, allows us to understand the originality and freedom of his approach. Dante draws some elements in a special way, but not only, from the Joachimite patrimony of the Minorite Spiritual Franciscans, as already recognized several times in the past; in particular, from Olivi's Lectura super Apocalypsim (1297), partially taken up and polemically radicalized by Ubertino in Arbor vitae (1305). The eschatological passages and the messianic subjects that Dante evokes, however, configure a profoundly different horizon of expectations.