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In the Purgatorio, Virgil leads Dante in a long climb up the Mount of Purgatory, through seven levels of suffering and spiritual growth (an allegory for the seven deadly sins), before reaching the earthly paradise at the top. The poet’s journey here represents the Christian life, in which Dante must learn to reject the earthly paradise he sees for the heavenly one that awaits. The poem discusses "the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward", [4] and describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. [5] Allegorically, the poem represents the soul's journey towards God, [6] beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin ( Inferno), followed by the penitent Christian life ( Purgatorio), which is then followed by the soul's ascent to God ( Paradiso). Dante draws on medieval Catholic theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy derived from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. [7] Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse". [8] Dante's interactions with Beatrice set an example of so-called courtly love, a phenomenon developed in French and Provençal poetry of prior centuries. Dante's experience of such love was typical, but his expression of it was unique. It was in the name of this love that Dante left his imprint on the dolce stil nuovo ("sweet new style", a term that Dante himself coined), and he would join other contemporary poets and writers in exploring never-before-emphasized aspects of love ( Amore). Love for Beatrice (as Petrarch would express for Laura somewhat differently) would be his reason for writing poetry and for living, together with political passions. In many of his poems, she is depicted as semi-divine, watching over him constantly and providing spiritual instruction, sometimes harshly. When Beatrice died in 1290, Dante sought refuge in Latin literature. [28] The Convivio chronicles his having read Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae and Cicero's De Amicitia. Without access to the works of Homer, Dante used Virgil, Lucan, Ovid, and Statius as the models for the style, history, and mythology of the Comedy. [52] This is most obvious in the case of Virgil, who appears as a mentor character throughout the first two canticles and who has his epic The Aeneid praised with language Dante reserves elsewhere for Scripture. [53] Ovid is given less explicit praise in the poem, but besides Virgil, Dante uses Ovid as a source more than any other poet, mostly through metaphors and fantastical episodes based on those in The Metamorphoses. [54] Less influential than either of the two are Statius and Lucan, the latter of whom has only been given proper recognition as a source in the Divine Comedy in the twentieth century. [55]

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I think that’s right. That’s certainly a feature that several of the contributors in the anthology focus upon. For example, the essay by Amilcare Iannucci focuses on the importance of the popularisation of the Commedia. I think another quite striking instance of the continuing vitality of Inferno, particularly, is that [in April 2009] in London alone there were three different forms of Dante performance. There was the avant-garde Italian theatre-company staging an approach to all three parts of the Commedia at the Barbican, there was Roberto Benigni’s one man show at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and there was also a showing at the Barbican cinema of the 1911 silent film of the Inferno. Dante continues to be a very vigorous presence outside the academy. Christopher Kleinhenz, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-415-93930-5, p.360. Much like Dante writing in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin. Contemporary appropriation seems to follow that trend of accessibility. The structure of the three realms of the afterlife follows a common pattern of nine stages plus an additional, and paramount, tenth: nine circles of hell, followed by Lucifer’s level at the bottom; nine rings of purgatory, with the Garden of Eden at its peak; and the nine celestial bodies of heaven, followed by the empyrean (the highest stage of heaven, where God resides).

The Divine Comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three cantiche (singular cantica)– Inferno ( Hell), Purgatorio ( Purgatory), and Paradiso ( Paradise)– each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural canti). An initial canto, serving as an introduction to the poem and generally considered to be part of the first cantica, brings the total number of cantos to 100. It is generally accepted, however, that the first two cantos serve as a unitary prologue to the entire epic, and that the opening two cantos of each cantica serve as prologues to each of the three cantiche. [17] [18] [19] Available online at World of Dante and alongside Teodolinda Barolini's commentary at Digital Dante. During the period of his exile, Dante corresponded with Dominican theologian Fr. Nicholas Brunacci OP [1240–1322], who had been a student of Thomas Aquinas at the Santa Sabina studium in Rome, later at Paris, [46] and of Albert the Great at the Cologne studium. [47] Brunacci became lector at the Santa Sabina studium, forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and later served in the papal curia. [48] In the spring of 1312, Dante seemed to have gone with the other exiles to meet up with the new emperor at Pisa (Henry’s rise was sustained, and he was named Holy Roman Emperor in 1312), but again, his exact whereabouts during this period are uncertain. By 1314, however, Dante had completed the Inferno, the segment of The Divine Comedy set in hell, and in 1317 he settled at Ravenna and there completed The Divine Comedy (soon before his death in 1321). So it’s a case of making true Dante’s original aim, to make the work accessible to as wide an audience as possible?

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In 1329, Bertrand du Pouget, Cardinal and nephew of Pope John XXII, classified Dante's Monarchia as heretical and sought to have his bones burned at the stake. Ostasio I da Polenta and Pino della Tosa, allies of Pouget, interceded to prevent the destruction of Dante's remains. [54] Cenotaph in Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence

This edition is the one that students frequently use before they go on to the Italian editions. The notes are thorough and very accessible. Which edition to recommend for the new reader also raises several other questions about how to render Dante’s verse into English, and how much explanation is needed – both in the translation itself and in the form of commentary. See Lepschy, Laura; Lepschy, Giulio (1977). The Italian Language Today. or any other history of Italian language.

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Dante’s Divine Comedy has flourished for more than 650 years and has been considered a major work since Giovanni Boccaccio wrote a biography of Dante in 1373. By 1400, at least 12 commentaries had already been written on the poem’s meaning and significance. The work is a major part of the Western canon, and T.S. Eliot, who was greatly influenced by Dante, put Dante in a class with only one other poet of the modern world, Shakespeare, saying that they ”divide the modern world between them. There is no third.” This has to do with the work’s appeal and part of that – particularly in relation to the Inferno, which does have a primacy among the three books – is that it is a powerful story about witnessing and trying to comprehend extremes of violence and horror. This is why Dante tends to be identified with the Inferno and indeed why the Inferno is so often cited in the present day, in terms of trying to understand present day forms of horror and violence. War poems, for example, often draw to varying degrees and in various ways on the Inferno. A classic example is Seamus Heaney’s dialogue with Dante in his collection from 1979, Field Work, the concluding poem of which is Heaney’s own version of one of the most horrific stories in the Inferno, the story of Ugolino, the Pisan nobleman who is starved to death in a tower and who takes revenge on the politician who is responsible for his death.Maier, Harry O. (2007). "Review of Die Visio Pauli: Wege und Wandlungen einer orientalischen Apokryphe im lateinischen Mittelalter, unter Einschluß der alttschechischen und deutschsprachigen Textzeugen". Speculum. 82 (4): 1000–1002. doi: 10.1017/S0038713400011647. JSTOR 20466112. Some 16th-century English Protestants, such as John Bale and John Foxe, argued that Dante was a proto-Protestant because of his opposition to the pope. [61] [62] Columbia University's Digital Dante features the full text in Italian alongside English translations from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Allen Mandelbaum. Includes English commentary from Teodolinda Barolini as well as multimedia resources relating to the Divine Comedy.

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a b Emmerson, Richard K., and Ronald B. Herzman. "Revelation." In: Lansing (ed.), The Dante Encyclopedia, 742-44. Dante has also been simplified quite recently as a voice which might be deployed in support of the European Union ideal. A. N. Wilson, on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth, spoke of Dante as though he would be a voice for the ‘Remain’ campaign. One wonders what Dante might have thought of certain aspects of the European Union now, in relation to Greece, for instance. I expect it would be quite a dangerous thing to try to recruit Dante to your cause, whether left-wing or right-wing. A series of lectures, called ‘Decentring Dante’, will take place at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, celebrating the publication of the Handbook. The lecture series will suggest ways of reading Dante’s Comedy from a less central position and with a broader, more critical perspective. How can discussions of race in the Middle Ages and the attentiveness to indigenous forms of knowledge preservation help literary scholars to rethink their understanding of ’canonicity’ and the ’canonical‘? On what basis can canonical authors such as Dante, Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan continue to be read today? In what sense and at what cost can Dante inspire other poets? What does he mean, more specifically, to a woman writer and artist in Jamaica? What changes when Dante’s Virgil is read not only as part of the Christian reception of classical authors in the Middle Ages, but also in dialogue with the practices of ancient pedagogy? Does the queer desire informing the Aeneid also flow through Dante’s poem? The structure of the poem is also quite complex, with mathematical and numerological patterns distributed throughout the work, particularly threes and nines. The poem is often lauded for its particularly human qualities: Dante's skillful delineation of the characters he encounters in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; his bitter denunciations of Florentine and Italian politics; and his powerful poetic imagination. Dante's use of real characters, according to Dorothy Sayers in her introduction to her translation of the Inferno, allows Dante the freedom of not having to involve the reader in description, and allows him to "[make] room in his poem for the discussion of a great many subjects of the utmost importance, thus widening its range and increasing its variety." [42] Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. His De vulgari eloquentia ( On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. By writing his poem in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, Dante influenced the course of literary development, making Italian the literary language in western Europe for several centuries. [11] His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later follow.The legacy is partly one of debate about whether he should have written in the vernacular as opposed to the prestige language of Latin – that’s a question that was already developing in Dante’s own time and Boccaccio was rather divided over it. He was very impressed by Dante as the vernacular writer and he began, within about ten to fifteen years of Dante’s death, to imitate him, using Dantean language in his early verse romances. Now Petrarch, the third of the three crowns of Florence as they were called – Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch – was much more chary of Dante. Petrarch was of course a vernacular writer but he also had a strong sense of resisting Dante as an influence, and the fear of being dominated by him was something Petrarch actually mentioned in a letter to Boccaccio. Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon. Harcourt Brace. ISBN 9780151957477. See also Western canon for other "canons" that include the Divine Comedy. Picone, Michelangelo. "Bernard, St." (trans. Robin Treasure). In: Lansing (ed.), The Dante Encyclopedia, 99-100.