L’ITINERARIUM DANTESCO: GEOGRAFIE PER LA CONOSCENZA DELL’ALTROVE

Abstract

Dante’s itinerarium: geographies for knowledge of the elsewhere. – The itinerary traveled by Dante to the three reigns of the afterlife and narrated in the Divine Commedia is emblematic of a type of knowledge journey that places physical and metaphysical realities on the same stage and considers the cultural identity of the narrating self and the geographical characteristics of the elsewhere voyaged by the traveler-narrator. This paper aims to offer, from a geographical perspective, an insight into the mean-ing of travel, considering not only the material geographic reality, but also the perceptual and symbolic dimension that is given to spatiality by persons and communities that identify with a specific culture.