Essays on Dante

Aeneid allegory of poets allegory of theologians anagogical anger antiquity Beatrice beginning blessed bolgia Boniface called canticle canto Canto XIX Cavalcante character Christ Christian classical colui Commedia Convivio Dante Alighieri Dante the pilgrim Dante's Divine Comedy earth earthly elevated style essay eternal event expressed farce Farinata figure Filippo Argenti Florence Florentine Forese Donati Ghibellines Giovanni Ferretti God's heaven Hell historical Holy human Inferno journey kind of allegory learned legs letter Limbo literal sense living Malebolge Malebranche meaning metaphor mind moral narrative nature Nicolas Paradise passage passions philosophy Pier della Vigna poem poetic poetry present prologue punishment Purg Purgatory question quod reader realism reality realms scene Scripture senso signifies simonists sinners soul speak speech spirit sublime surse symbolic tercet things thou tion true truth turn Virgil virtue vision Vita Nuova whole words wrath