Il «lago del cor» o il cor in lacu: tra anatomia, Scrittura e tradizione letteraria. Qualche ulteriore aggiunta sul primo ‘lago’ della Commedia

Abstract

The «lago del cor», which one encounters even before crossing the threshold of the «secret things» of the kingdom of the underworld, can be read and interpreted as a pulcer tropus placed to embellish the opening lines of Dante’s Comedy. And this is certainly true, but the semantic universe that accompanies the image emerges in all its polysemic value as soon as one looks beyond the sphere of tout court literary criticism and explores different scopes that, in spite of the totally modern sectoral approach, they are instead rediscovered as being adjacent and complementary in the figure created by Dante.