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Dante: Biography, Medieval Italian Poet, The Divine Comedy Dante: Biography, Medieval Italian Poet, The Divine Comedy
Hollander, Robert (2000). Note on Inferno I.11. In Robert and Jean Hollander, trans., The Inferno by Dante. New York: Random House. p. 14. ISBN 0-385-49698-2Slade, Carole; Cecchetti, Giovanni, eds. (1982). Approaches to teaching Dante's Divine comedy. New York, N.Y.: Modern Language Association of America. ISBN 978-0873524780. OCLC 7671339. The Divine Comedy is an allegory of human life presented as a visionary trip through the Christian afterlife, written as a warning to a corrupt society to steer itself to the path of righteousness: "to remove those living in this life from the state of misery, and lead them to the state of felicity." The poem is written in the first person (from the poet’s perspective) and follows Dante's journey through the three Christian realms of the dead: hell, purgatory and finally heaven. The Roman poet Virgil guides Dante through hell ( Inferno) and purgatory ( Purgatorio), while Beatrice guides him through heaven ( Paradiso). The journey lasts from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300 (placing it before Dante’s factual exile from Florence, which looms throughout the Inferno and serves as an undercurrent to the poet’s journey).
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Miles, Thomas (2008). "Dante: Tours of Hell: Mapping the Landscape of Sin and Despair". In Stewart, Jon (ed.). Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions. Ashgate. pp.223–236. ISBN 978-0-7546-6391-1. Education and poetry [ edit ] Mural of Dante in the Uffizi, Florence, by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450 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. Florence eventually came to regret having exiled Dante. The city made repeated requests for the return of his remains. The custodians of the body in Ravenna refused, at one point going so far as to conceal the bones in a false wall of the monastery. Florence built a tomb for Dante in 1829, in the Basilica of Santa Croce. That tomb has been empty ever since, with Dante's body remaining in Ravenna. The front of his tomb in Florence reads Onorate l'altissimo poeta — which roughly translates as "Honor the most exalted poet" and is a quote from the fourth canto of the Inferno. [55] Glassé, Cyril (2008). The New Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd Volume (3rded.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p.278. ISBN 9780742562967.
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Carlyle, Thomas (1841). "Lecture III. The Hero as Poet. Dante: Shakspeare.". On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.
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