The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (13 inch ebook reader .txt) 📕
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Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is considered one of the greatest works in world literature, and it established the standardized Italian language that is used today. Writing between 1308 and 1320, Dante draws from countless subjects including Roman Catholic theology and philosophy, the struggle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire, Greek mythology, and geocentric cosmology to answer the age-old question: what does the afterlife look like? Dante’s vision of the answer, this three-volume epic poem, describes in great detail the systematic levels in Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
The poem opens with Dante’s death—not his actual death that would come shortly after his work’s completion, but his fictional death—where the author is found wandering in a dark forest. Blocked from climbing towards the bright light by a she-wolf, a leopard, and a lion, he is forced to walk further into the darkened valley and towards the gates of Hell. Dante and his guides must then travel through the nine circles of Hell, seven terraces of Purgatory, and nine spheres of Heaven to experience divine justice for earthly sins so that he may reach the Empyrean and receive God’s love. On his journey, he will learn that one must be consciously devoted to the path of morality and righteousness, else one find oneself on a path towards sin.
This production is based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s blank verse translation. Longfellow succeeds in capturing the original brilliance of Dante’s internal rhymes and hypnotic patterns while also retaining accuracy. It is said that the death of his young wife brought him closer to the melancholy spirit of Dante’s writing, which itself was shaped by his wounding exile from his beloved Florence in 1302.
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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I Quaest. XXIX 2:—
“What exists by itself, and not in another, is called subsistence.”
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The three Persons of the Trinity. ↩
The second circle, or second Person of the Trinity. ↩
The human nature of Christ; the incarnation of the Word. ↩
In this new light of God’s grace, the mystery of the union of the Divine and human nature in Christ is revealed to Dante. ↩
Wordsworth, “Resolution and Independence”:—
“As a cloud …
That heareth not the loud winds when they call,
And moveth all together, if it move at all.”
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1 John 4:16:—
“God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”
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In the Spanish schools the color of our Saviour’s mantle is generally a deep rich violet. ↩
Villani, VIII Ch. 96. ↩
Dino Compagni, III 76. ↩
Tiresias, who was blind. ↩
Sanchoniathon. ↩
Whom Plato banished from his imaginary republic. ↩
List of IllustrationsThe geomancy figure for Fortuna Major.
The word “omo” made to look like a human face.
ColophonThe Divine Comedy
was completed in 1320 by
Dante Alighieri.
It was translated from Italian in 1867 by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
This ebook was produced for
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Emma Sweeney,
and is based on a transcription produced in 1997 by
Jennifer Hogan, Tanya Larkin, Robert W. Cole, Jennifer Cook, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso).
The cover page is adapted from
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Right Panel),
a painting completed in 1510 by
Hieronymus Bosch.
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