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1. DANTE AND THE
DIVINE COMEDY
DALE CHRISTIAN RABANG
CATRINA MAE U. AGDEPPA
JHON KYLE UNAY

2. DANTE ALIGHIERI
• BORN IN 1265 IN REPUBLIC OF FLORENCE
• LATIN, MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND PROVENCIAL POETRY
• WHICH WAS THE BEGINNING OF COURTLY LOVE, A SPIRITUAL
CONCEPTION OF LOVE IN WHICH THE POET CONSIDERS HIMSELF A
VASSAL OF HIS BELOVED LADY, ALMOST PORTRAYED AS AN
ANGEL, WHO IS ALWAYS UNACHIEVABLE.

3. • FOLLOWING THE PATH OF COURTLY LOVE AND INFLUENCED BY
SOME IMPORTANT POET OF THAT TIME G. GUINIZZELI, G.
CAVALCANTI, G. d’AREZZO… DANE WROTE II FIORE ( A
COLLECTION OF SONNETS BASED ON LE ROMAN DE LA ROSE, BY
JEAN DE MEUN AND GUILLAUME DE LORRIS), II DETO ( A SUMMARY
OF COURTLY LOVE) AND HIS FIRST IMPORTANT BOOK; VITA NUOVA,
A COLLECTION OF POEMS ( SONGS AND BALLADS) DESCRIBING HIS
PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS BELOVED BEATRICE.

4. • IN 1292, DANTE READ CIERO (DE ORATORE) AND
BOETHIUS (DE CONSOLATION PHILOSOPHIAE AND
TRINITATE) AND ATTENDED SEVERAL RELIGIOS
SCHOOLS, GETTING FAMILIAR WITH THEOLOGY
AND WITH THE IDEAS OF ST. THOMAS OF AQUINO.
HE BECAME PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN
FRANCISCAN’S PHILOSOPHY.

5. • IN 1302, WHILE HE WAS IN ROME IN ROME IN A
DIPLOMATIC MISSION, DANTE WAS SENTENCED TO
DEATH . HOWEVER, HE WAS EVENTUALLY CONDEMNED
TO EXILE AND NEVER RETURNED TO FLORENCE, WHICH
GAVE HIM THE OPPORTUNITY OF WRITING FROM A
DISTANT POINT, WITH MORE FREEDOM. HE WROTE THE
DIVINE COMEDY IN THIS CONTEXT.

6. DANTE’S MAIN WORK:
• DE VOLGARI ELOQUENTIA (VINDICATION OF THE
IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL LANGUAGES, CLAIMING
THEY WERE GOOD ENOUGH FOR LITERATURE AND
PHILOSOPHY)
• MONARCHIA (A POLITIC BOOK THAT AIMED TO THE
RESTORATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE)

7. DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY
• SUMMARISE OF THE WAY OF LIVING, POLITICS THEOLOGY, etc. OF THE
MIDDLE AGES, WHICH ARE OFTEN CONSIDERED THE “DARK AGES” OF
HISTORY.
• THE DIVINE COMEDY IS A CHRISTIAN EPIC POEM, WRITTEN IN “TERZA RIMA”
AND DIVIDED IN CANTOS, THAT SPEAKS ABOUT A JOURNEY THROUGH HELL,
PURGATORY AND PARADISE. IN THIS POEM, EVERYTHING IS PORTRAYED
THROUGH THE EXPERIENCE OF THE VERY DANTE, AN “INTRUDER AMONG THE
DEATH”, THAT EXHAUSTIVELY DESCRIBES EVERYTHING HE FEELS. HE IS GUIDED
BY VIRGIL, WHO IS APPROPRIATE TO THE TASK BECAUSE HE WAS THE AUTHOR
OF ONE OF THE GREATEST EPICS, THE AENEID, AND , THEREFORE, HE WOULD
IMPROVE THE POETIC LEVEL OF DANTE.