The forest and the hill. Hermeneutics of genres in the first song of Hell

Abstract

The article reads the first canto of Hell from the perspective of the hermeneutics of sexual genders. The initial contrast, which criminalizes the feminine as a low and negative gender in the line of ancient and medieval misogyny, is transformed, in the second part of the song, into a modernly complementary vision of the genders, in which the feminine is redefined as a culturally high and positive category.