Abstract
In Dante, theology is linked to the myth of Beatrice, being the gentilissima mediator between earth and heaven, between immanence and transcendence. To this philogynous theology is necessarily connected the possibility of translating the real into the mage. Shakespeare, in his book of sonnets, questions this theology, distinguishing a homosexual desire, susceptible to aesthetic sublimation, and a heterosexual desire, prisoner of non-sublimable drives.