La Divine Comédie

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Independently Published, 4. srp 2019. - Broj stranica: 762
Toute l'histoire de Dante tient entre trois dates précises. Il naquit à Florence en 1265. Il fut élevé au Priorat, la plus haute magistrature de son pays, en 1300. Il mourut à Ravenne en 1321, âgé de 56 ans. Après avoir pris part, pendant un temps bien court, au gouvernement de la République florentine, il fut soudain précipité du pouvoir par le jeu mortel des factions et, victime d'accusations infâmes, condamné en 1301 à la confiscation de sa modeste fortune, à l'exil, et au bûcher s'il reparaissait dans sa patrie. Son existence pendant ces longues années d'exil est demeurée fort obscure. On sait qu'il erra d'hospitalités en hospitalités, de châteaux en châteaux, de couvents en couvents, montant les escaliers des autres et mangeant le pain d'autrui . Devenu Gibelin après son exil, il s'était uni d'abord à quelques efforts pour rouvrir leur patrie à ses compagnons d'exil. C'est ainsi qu'il aurait pris part en 1304 à une tentative armée des Gibelins exilés contre la Florence Guelfe, et que plus tard il aurait voulu entraîner contre Florence l'empereur Henri VII, descendu en Italie pour y rétablir l'autorité de l'Empire. La vie qu'il menait alors se révèle à nous aujourd'hui par les oeuvres que lui dictaient ce qu'on peut appeler ses idées fixes, c'est-à-dire la constitution monarchique de la Société civile sous le sceptre de l'Empire, à côté de la Société théocratique sous le pallium de la Papauté, l'ennoblissement de la langue vulgaire de son pays, le redressement d'une société confuse et dépravée, enfin la contemplation de la mort, à laquelle nous devons la Divine Comédie.

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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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