La Commedia Di Dante Allighieri: Con Ragionamenti e Note Di Niccolò Tommaséo (Classic Reprint)

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Leggiamoglipartedel suosecreto nelvolto. Miriamoqueilaùontetlta, pronh a contrarsi alla mefitazione, ad aggrottarsi allo sdegno; quelle guance alquanto incavate quel mento sporgente, che dicono vigore e accensibilità dall'aria sdc guasa della fisonomia non so che diposato, di raccolto, e (in profilo riguarda: dda) di malinconico e di pietoso. Non un pensiero solo, un afletto, da quel volto traspare: que' lineamenti che, leggermente considerati, o infedelmente ritratti, non spirano che la ferocia e la rabbia; la gravità, la sicurezza, il dolore, lì mc dellano ad espressione più varia e più profonda. 'l\i vi leggi un animo altero c ardente ma signore del proprio pensiero, ma rinchiuso in sè tanto da non lasciar prorompere invano scintilla del fuoco che lo divora; ma disposto a seu ti're in mezzo all'ira e all'orgoglio i più miti, i più nobili afletti accessibile alla cornpassione che ama, al dolore ch' esalta l'anima, e la fa migliore. Ognuno avrà conosciuto fiscnomie somiglianti a questa di Dante, e non che impresse de'segni del rancore, informate a indulgenza e pietà. Tale era l'amante di Beatrice negli anni più belli, quando il dolore di unaffettosolitario e le euro della...... sete gli agitavano il cuore: nè prima delle umiliazioni cheawelenarono tom rato suo esilimsi svolse in lui quello sdegno feroce che poi pullulo si on... E quando io riguardo attentamente que' lineamenti che mi si ofl'rivano al... dall'ira, riconosco in essi il cantore di Francesca, di Matilde, di Beatrice, tanto chiaramente quanto il nemico di Filippo e di Bonifazio Questa quasi mistione di due contrari elementi la sensibilità dell'ira e la sensibilità dell'amore e come il fondo della neutra di lui; le sono due corde dalle quali esce, or alterna, ora muro, la doppia armonia.

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Born Dante Alighieri in the spring of 1265 in Florence, Italy, he was known familiarly as Dante. His family was noble, but not wealthy, and Dante received the education accorded to gentlemen, studying poetry, philosophy, and theology. His first major work was Il Vita Nuova, The New Life. This brief collection of 31 poems, held together by a narrative sequence, celebrates the virtue and honor of Beatrice, Dante's ideal of beauty and purity. Beatrice was modeled after Bice di Folco Portinari, a beautiful woman Dante had met when he was nine years old and had worshipped from afar in spite of his own arranged marriage to Gemma Donati. Il Vita Nuova has a secure place in literary history: its vernacular language and mix of poetry with prose were new; and it serves as an introduction to Dante's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, in which Beatrice figures prominently. The Divine Comedy is Dante's vision of the afterlife, broken into a trilogy of the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante is given a guided tour of hell and purgatory by Virgil, the pagan Roman poet whom Dante greatly admired and imitated, and of heaven by Beatrice. The Inferno shows the souls who have been condemned to eternal torment, and included here are not only mythical and historical evil-doers, but Dante's enemies. The Purgatory reveals how souls who are not irreversibly sinful learn to be good through a spiritual purification. And The Paradise depicts further development of the just as they approach God. The Divine Comedy has been influential from Dante's day into modern times. The poem has endured not just because of its beauty and significance, but also because of its richness and piety as well as its occasionally humorous and vulgar treatment of the afterlife. In addition to his writing, Dante was active in politics. In 1302, after two years as a priore, or governor of Florence, he was exiled because of his support for the white guelfi, a moderate political party of which he was a member. After extensive travels, he stayed in Ravenna in 1319, completing The Divine Comedy there, until his death in 1321.

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