Sivo, Francesca (Author)
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 20
Pages: 109--190
Publication date: 2012
Language: Italian
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Estremità e escrescenze dei corpi / Extremities and Excrescences of the Body”
Body represents a peculiar part of that complex structure where the opposition fama/infamia contributes to define the identity of individuals as well as of social groups, to start integration-belonging as well as exclusion processes, thus contributing to the balance of social cohesion and stability. This paper aims to analyze several abstracts from works of classic as well as Middle-age, belonging to different literary registers, where some peculiarly negative physical features dealing with descriptio turpitudinis end up in becoming symbols of vitia of the human soul. The portraits of ugly and misshapen characters -- starting from their physical `excesses' up to the grimaces forever taken by their bodies -- end up in symbolizing the most despicable features of their souls, thus leading the reader/spectator to laugh in order to defeat every kind of fear and to leave place to a realistic and `serious' knowledge of people and things.
...MoreDescription On belief that some negative physical features of the body dealing with descriptio turpitudinis as symbols of vitia of the human soul.
Article Pastoureau, Michel (2012) Les cornes, les poils, les oreilles et la queue. Se déguiser en animal dans l'Occident médiéval. Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali (p. 3).
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