Commedia Di Dante Allighieri: Con Ragionamenti e Note; l'Inferno (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, 2018 M01 4 - 554 pages
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E l'attitudine che domina in quell'aspetto che dà ri lievo a tutte le qualità dell' uomo e del poeta, si è la fer mezza: quella fermezza che, accoppiata all'amore, gl'ispi rava nella grave età un lungo inno trionfale di gloria alla giovanetta del suo cuore, perduta negli anni più spensie rati; quella fermezza che, accoppiata alla giustizia lo co stituiva giudice de'nemici e degli-amici; che accoppiata al dolore, gli faceva sotto alle mutate opinioni tenere nel Jondo dell' animai sensi stessi; che, accoppiata all' orgo glio, lo rispingeva dalle mura desiderate della terra natale, la qual egli sdegnava racquistare a prezzo di viltà; quella fermezza che, accoppiata all' amore di patria edi vendetta, non gli permise porre mai gnu la speranza lo spinse di provincia in provincia, di corte in corte; e, ributtatone ve lo ricondusse non tanto per mendicarne un ricetto quanto per arrotare la più possente delle armi, la parola armoniosa che doveva echeggiare per tanta via di spam e di tempi quella fermezza che diede forme giganti all'e difizio della sua imaginazione, e tutte le parti sin dal primo ne predispose, e le architetto fortemente; e avvento ri gido, intero diritto come saetta, quel verso varus simo e nell' apparente negligenza sempre ponderato e slclll'0.

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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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