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28 mag 2024 · Dante (born c. May 21–June 20, 1265, Florence [Italy]—died September 13/14, 1321, Ravenna) was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ( The Divine Comedy ). Dante’s Divine Comedy, a landmark in ...
5 giu 2018 · But it’s just one line of the 14,233 that make up The Divine Comedy, the three-part epic poem published in 1320 by Florentine bureaucrat turned visionary storyteller Dante Alighieri.
Although The Divine Comedy caused an immediate sensation during his life, Dante’s fame waned during the Italian Renaissance and was later revived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many scholars have examined the structural unity of the poem, discussing the relationship between medieval symbolism and allegory within the poem’s three sections and exploring Dante’s narrative strategy.
20 feb 2021 · The other reason for the title has more to do with the poem’s narrative pattern: Since the poem begins in sorrow (the dark wood of sin) and ends in joy (the vision of God), one can easily argue that the poem’s movement parallels the plot of a comedy. Commentators in the 14th century, including Dante’s disciple Giovanni Boccaccio, began ...
21 feb 2024 · Our Poem of the Week is an excerpt from Canto 31 of the Divine Comedy, my own translation. The pilgrim Dante is on the top of the mountain of Purgatory, and he has just been immersed in the River Lethe, which washes his sins from his memory, not, I think, that he doesn’t recall having committed them, but that they are no longer felt as a part of him.
Or you may simply select a Canto, and you will be brought to our main Poem Browser starting at line 1 for that Canto. You may also select the number of lines you wish to view at a time. The default is 15 (5 terzine) .
8 apr 2021 · Purgatorio: Canto XX. Ill strives the will against a better will; Therefore, to pleasure him, against my pleasure. I drew the sponge not saturate from the water. Onward I moved, and onward moved my Leader, Through vacant places, skirting still the rock, As on a wall close to the battlements;
