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The Divine Comedy Assistant Professor Sandrine Bertaux Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy Assistant Professor Sandrine Bertaux

Dante’s Commedia The Divine Comedy: -A Christian poem in the vernacular (Tuscan language) three cantiche- Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio) and Heaven or Paradise (Paradiso)- -An instant classic -original title: Commedia, 16th century onwards, the Divine Comedy. A comedy: Happy ending, paradise.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Outline of the Lecture Dante Alighieri: From Politics to Exile Christianity: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise Why Virgil as a guide?

From Exile to Politics Canto 1 1302 Dante in exile “Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, For I had wandered off from the straight path.” 1302 Dante in exile The White and the Black Guelfs A decade to write; a journey in one week’s time.

Hell, Purgatory and Heaven Judaism: a monistic other world, sheol Roman dualism: Hades (terror) and Elysian Fields (happiness) Christianity: Contrast Hell and Heaven Invention of the Purgatory as a “third place”: fully incorporated in the 12th c. Incompatible with reincarnation and metempsychosis (Hinduism or Catharism 12-14c).

Botticelli’s Hell

Botticelli’s Hell

Purgatory, a mountain-island: the 7 sins

The Virgil Question The Divine Comedy raises many questions; one of them being why did Dante the poet choose a pagan guide to lead Dante the Pilgrim in Hell and in the Purgatory? (Beatrice in Paradise) Virgil predicted the advent of the Christ Virgil an allegory of Reason (Beatrice as Faith) Virgil the model of poetry Virgil the poet praising Augustus

Virgil as a teacher “I was born… lived in Rome when good Augustus reigned, when still the false and lying gods were worshipped. I was a poet and sang that just man, Son of Anchises, who sailed off from Troy After the burning of proud Ilium.” “You are my teacher, the first of all my authors, And you alone the one from whom I took The noble style that was to bring me honor.”

“Be joyful, Florence, since you are so great De Monarchia: D. advocates imperial rule as opposed to political factions and the pope’s political interventions (on the Index list of banned books by the Church). “Be joyful, Florence, since you are so great that your outstretched wings beat over land and sea, and your name is spread throughout the realm of Hell! I was ashamed to find among the thieves Five of your most eminent citizens, A fact which does you very little honor.” Original title: The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Florentine by Citizenship, not by Morals”.