Resumo de The Divine Comedy

Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri(1265-1321)Italian poet prose writer literary theorist moral philosopher and political thinker and one of the great figures of world literature who was admired for the depth of his spiritual vision and for the range of his intellectual accomplishment.DantewasborninFlorence between late May and early June 1265, into a family of the lower nobility. His mother died in his childhood his father when Dante was 18 years old. The most significant event of his youth, according to his own account, was his meeting in 1274 with Beatrice the woman whom he loved and whom he exalted as the symbol of divine grace, first in The New Life and later in his greatest work The Divine Comedy. Scholars have identified Beatrice with the Florentine noblewoman Beatrice Portinari who died in 1290 aged barely 20. Dante caught sight of her on three occasions but never spoke to her.Dante'sepicmasterpiece The Divine Comedy was probably begun around 1307 it was completed shortly before his death. The work is an allegorical narrative, in verse of great precision and dramatic force of the poet's imaginary journey through hell purgatory and heaven. It is divided into three sections. In each of these three realms the poet meets with mythological historical and contemporary personages. Each character is symbolic of a particular fault or virtue, either religious or political and the punishment or rewards meted out to the characters further illustrate the larger meaning of their actions in the universal scheme. Dante is guided through hell and purgatory by Virgil who is to Dante the symbol of reason. Beatrice, whom he regards as both a manifestation and an instrument of the divine will is his guide through paradise.Eachsectioncontains 33 cantos except for the first section which has, in addition a canto serving as a general introduction. Dante intended the poem for his contemporaries and thus wrote it in Italian rather than Latin. He named the poem La commedia The Comedy because it ends happily in heaven his journey climaxed by a vision of God and by a complete blending of his own will with that of the deity. The adjective divine was first added to the title in a 1555 edition.Theworkwhichprovides a summary of the political scientific and philosophical thought of the time may be interpreted on four levels the literal allegorical moral and mystical indeed part of the majesty of this work rests on its multiplicity of meaning even more than on its masterfully poetic and dramatic qualities. It is supreme as a dramatization of medieval Christian theology but even beyond that framework Dante's imaginary voyage can be understood as an allegory of the purification of one's soul and of the achievement of inner peace through the guidance of reason and love.

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