Forme del male. Antitesi e parodia nell'«Inferno»

[Autom. eng. transl.] Dante's Lucifer is built on the basis of two figures of speech, the antithesis and the parody. Lucifer is antithetical in itself, signifying the irremediable inner fissure caused by sin; and it is parodic with respect to God, who strives to imitate without success. It is parodic, not antithetical, as it is usually said, thus risking to attribute to Dante a Manichean vision, which places God and Lucifer on the same level, albeit with an opposite value sign. Dante, by resorting to parody, wants instead to point out, in a fruitful symbiosis between forms and contents, the secondary nature of the evil of evil with respect to the good, its impossibility to exist without the good: exactly as the parody cannot be given without a parody that precedes it and establishes it.