La Commedia Di Dante Alighieri, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Lunga la barba e di pel bianco mista Portava a' suoi capei simigliante De' quai cadeva al petto doppia lista. Li raggi delle quattro luci sante Fregiavan si la sua faccia di lume, Ch' io il vedea, come il Sol fosse davante. Chi siete voi, che contra il cieco fiume Fuggito avete la prigione eterna? Disse ei, movendo quelle oneste piume. Chi v' ha guidati? O chi vi fu lucerna, Uscendo fuor della profonda notte, Che sempre nera fa la valle inferna Son le leggi d'abisso cosi rotte? O è mutato in Ciel nuovo consiglio, Che dannati venite alle mie grotte? Lo duca mio allor mi die di piglio, E con parole, e con mani, e con cenni, Reverenti mi l'e' le gambe e il ciglio Poscia rispose lui: Da me non venni Donna scese dal Ciel, per li cui preghi Della mia compagnia costui sovvenni. Ma da ch' è tuo voler che più si Spieghi Di nostra condizion, com' ella è vera.

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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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