Ciudad ideal y ciudad real en el teatro de Calderón
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Cancelliere, Enrica
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2020
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Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 8, Nº. 2, 2020, pags. 53-76
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The city in Calderón's theater is elaborated according to deictic procedures that originate from two epistemological perspectives connoting the Weltanschauung of the author constitutive of his 'Philosophy of History'. The first presents an eschatological vision of all human history elaborated from Patristics to Saint Augustine (De civitate Dei). The second comes from the Renaissance humanistic culture that establishes the precepts of the stage in accordance with the distinction of dramatic genres. However, the author's poetics sometimes constructs the two perspectives in a dialectical way, since he draws a city outline that is shown in its validity and evolution. If, on the one hand, the route from the 'civitas terrena' to the 'Civitas Dei' is traced along the axis of the verticality of the abysses to the heavens, or, on the contrary, its rush to the 'civitas infernalis'; on the other, the city in its concrete history 'in fieri' can be represented as a Renaissance 'ideal city ' or as an earthly city. In fact, with the help of Grace, the faculty of making the Ἔσχατον perspective for their own city is typical of all men