Dante’s Ulysses between Two Millennia (I)
Dante’s Ulysses between Two Millennia (I)

Summary/Abstract: Dante’s Ulysses was to remain an icon in Euro-American culture and literature for all those who tolerated no limits or dictates.16 At the beginning of the twentieth century he was still used, via Tennyson’s version, for Amundsen, the first to find the North-West Passage, and for the doomed attempts of Scott and Shackleton to reach the South Pole. His image and story haunted people like Lauro de Bosis, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Benito Mussolini. Although the figure of Ulysses is inevitably composite, Homer’s fascinating protagonist inevitably appearing now and then as fellow-traveler, occasionally overtaking Dante’s before drawing back for a while, it was with similarly mad flights that the century began, on June 16, 1904, and ended, on September 11, 2001

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