Dantes Divine Comedy
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PROJECT -II
Dante's Divine Comedy is an epic poem which began in ca.1308 by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri who lived from the year 1265 to 1321. This poem on a literal level describes the journey through the realm of dead. And on a symbolic level the poem describes the spiritual pilgrimage of the Christian soul from sin through purification and then to salvation. The Divine Comedy is an expression of the medieval mind which gives dramatic forms to Christian way of life and death. The content of this poem provides an invaluable picture of the ethical, political, and theological concerns of Dante's time and carries symbolic meanings. The poem has 3 parts which corresponds to the Aristotelian divisions of human psyche known as Reason, Will and Love. They also represent the potential moral conditions of the Christian soul: perversity, repentance, and grace. The sacred number 3 has the symbolic meaning of the Trinity which permeates the design of the commedia. This poem is also divided into three canticles or books and each canticle has thirty-three cantos or divisions...