« Che cosa è questo purgare ? ». La catharsis tragique d’Aristote chez les poéticiens italiens de la Renaissance
The notion of catharsis was popularized as early as 1548 through the various editions of Aristotle’s Poetics. During the Renaissance, it was interpreted in an ambiguous way: it was either understood in a moral sense, as a purification of passions, or in a medical way, as a purgation. All theoreticia...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2008-06-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/895 |