Immagini linguistiche dantesche: metafore meteorologiche
Dantesque linguistic images: meteorological metaphors

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the corpus of meteorological expressions in the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The nouns and verbs examined are hail, snow, fog, lightning and flash, thunder and thunder, and rain. Being essentially referred to events of the earthly world, meteorological expressions are found above all in the description of the punishments, in the similes and in the narrations of facts of life on Earth. There are numerous attestations with metaphorical value, particularly interesting for the distribution within the songs, for the light they throw on the building of the allegory. There will also be an important consideration on the development of the metaphorical process. There will also be special attention to the meteorological verbs, transitive and intransitive ones.

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