Chasing the ineffable. The ways of light in the Commedia

In Paradise, the poetics of the ineffable tend to fade behind the phenomenology of light and its figurative power that allow Dante to describe the dazzling splendour of ultimate truths. The rhetorical strategies which underlie it are however deployed repeatedly in Hell and in Purgatory. The Divine Comedy would therefore be crossed by the same formal logic which would place light – and its absence – at the center of the hermeneutical process of the “trasumanar”.