Dante per i bambini: percorsi tra riduzioni e riscritture nella prima metà del Novecento

Abstract

During the XX century the adapted texts for young people of the Divine Comedy started when cultural industry has affirmed. It has given impulse to the publishing industry for youth and thanks to the process of popular education it has developed the popularization of the culture to the infancy. The essay presents the literary history of reductions of the Divine Comedy and it highlights that the stylistic quality has allowed to develop interest among the young readers. Growing up, the stylistic quality introduces to the reading of the original text. The aesthetic beauty of the Divine Comedy can approach to the childhood without losing itself. The adapted texts underline the potentialities of the original text and they show the different way of educating future adult readers.