*1465 fresco*
(italian painter ‘domenico di michelino’)
(‘dante’ holding copy of ‘divine comedy’)
(the entrance to hell)
(the 7 terraces of ‘mount purgatory’ in background)
(the spheres of heaven above)
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(Italian: Divina Commedia [diˈviːna komˈmɛːdja])
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“(du)rante degli alighieri”
(italian poet)
(1265 – 1321)
(died @ age 56 after contracting malaria from a trip to ‘venice’)
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(during my freshman spring @ harvard, i took a course on his “divine comedy” to fulfill a literature core requirement)
(‘dante’ completed the epic poem shortly before his death)
(a faggy TA named “walter midolo” led the weekly section attended by big will and i)
(he professed to be an “expert” on the divine comedy but i always read right through the bullshit of so-called “literary experts”)
(and to think, in dante’s worldview walter would be condemned to hell as a “sodomite”…o the utter ironies of higher education!)
(walter’s faggy outbursts entertained big will and i)
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(the work is presented as a trilogy that falls right in line with the catholic afterlife theology i was duly brought up on)
INFERNO
(the most famous section)
“hell”
PURGATORIO
“purgatory”
PARADISO
“heaven”
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(the Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321)
It is widely considered the preeminent work in Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature.
The poem’s imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century.
It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language.
(it is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and “Paradiso”)
On the surface, the poem describes Dante’s travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven; but at a deeper level, it represents, allegorically, the soul’s journey towards God.
At this deeper level, Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas.
(consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called “the Summa in verse”)
The work was originally simply titled Comedìa and the word Divina was added by Giovanni Boccaccio.
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(the first printed edition to add the word divina to the title was that of the venetian humanist ‘lodovico dolce’, published in 1555 by “gabriele giolito de’ ferrari”)
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