![]() ![]() In making this claim I do not intend, like Ulysses, to sail off the map, but rather to explore some possibly new territory.ĭante and Virgil first encounter Brunetto amidst a troop _ «una schiera» (v. What I am claiming is that Brunetto would have been as recognizably gay to Dante's first readers and auditors as he is to us in the late twentieth century. I want to argue, not that Brunetto is a Sodomite _ most readers of the Inferno would agree about that _ but rather that Dante has portrayed him as a Sodomite: as a homosexual man with characteristically, even stereotypically, gay attributes and mannerisms. Yet I want to consider Dante's portrait of Brunetto Latini precisely as an example of human nature at its most stubbornly unchangeable. ![]() To speak of «unchanging human nature» is to sail over very calm and very dull seas.
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