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The Divine Comedy

Book Summary by: RobsonMoura    

Original Author: Dante Alighiere
This abstract was translated from A Divina Comédia
 KEY WORDS: Sky, Hell, Purgatory, God, Comedy, Florence, Alighieri. Title of the Book: THE DIVINE COMEDY. Author: ALIGHIERE,
DANTE. In 1265, he is born Dante Alighiere, in the city of Florence, the largest Italian poet, studied at Santa Cruz's Convent, he for several Italian cities, but in Ravena he lived your last moments and there it died to the 56 years, in 1321. Your work cousin is " THE Divine Comedy ". Written in A hundred Songs, In the period of 1310/1321. The work is divided in three parts: The Hell, the Purgatory and the Paradise. With the character's help Virgílio - poet of the Latin antiquity, that wrote Eneida, symbol of the divine reason - Dante travels those three points: the first two terrible of the Hell to the Purgatory to have the right of entering in the paradise with your sweet lover's aid, Beatrice. Until today the name is reason doubts for, when he/she refers to the word comedy. Comedy refers to the suffering in antithesis the happiness and peace of the Paradise. Then the Divine comedy of our lives of our sufferings, always shimmering God in the hour of the death. The work comes, also, in a critical way when Dante calls to render bills in symbolic tribunal the powerful ones. Second E. R. Curtius, " Dante calls to the tribunal you eat and emperors of your time: kings and prelates, statesmen, tyrants, generals; men and women of the nobility and of the bourgeoisie of the corporations and of the schools {. . . }" The probation, the moralism of Dante - being placed as somebody " lost in a dark " jungle to the 35 years - and of the reader representing the humanity, in an edifying metalanguage. All that that sin should seek the redemption of your sins, that is the hidden objective in the words. To say that one were sorry is not enough it is necessary to have faith and to be rational, in the society of the dogma. Your description of the Hell pulling the souls for the center of the earth - in agreement with the vision of the world, according to Pitolomeu, that the Earth was the Center of the Universe - constituted of nine circles it is according to Vincenza Rubino " a crater where the condemned sinners' souls are distributed the terrible featherses. " had before me the king of the darkness. The how out beautiful light angel, today was ugly. I was frightened when seeing that had three faces in only one head. The front face was red,a of the right, yellow, and the one of the left, black as the fulígem " While the Purgatory is a mountain formed on the opposite side to the hell, also constituted of nine parts: the souls, once purified, they are going going up the landings in the hillsides of the mountain, " when we noticed, along the road, leaned to the livid wall, and with the eyelids sewn with wire threads, for the eyes, that so much coveted, they didn't see light, a crowd of dressed shades of rude silício; the shades counted, or better, they screamed all the saints' litania, crying out in unison: ' Maria, pray for us! ." The Paradise was already imagined as the top of the Purgatory. It is composed of nine skies, that govern the planets. In Empíreo, composed of pure light, they live God and the sanctified " souls. " Before reaching the ninth sky - the real mantle, because he collects all the others -, I saw they leave a circle dançante three lights brilliant extremam,ente, that for your speed knew they be souls of the most precious. " The Work is interesting for establishing a hierarchy of sins for final condemnation, it is defined that the souls that are at the Hell don't have more salvation. The ones that already meet in the Purgatory they can ascend, it accepts the transitory atonement that it will free them in the end with the supreme award, God in the paradise. The Work is interesting for establishing a hierarchy of sins for final condemnation, it is defined that the souls that are at the Hell don't have more salvatiolready meet in the Purgatory they can ascend, it accepts the transitory atonement that it will free them in the end with the supreme award, God in the paradise. This trip is accomplished in one week: he/she/you begins on Friday, April 8 and it is going to Thursday of the following week in the year of 1300, to Onofrio Salvatore, it is " arrested to the fact of being the first Year Saint of the history of the CATHOLICISM: the Papa Bonifácio VIII determined that the first year of the new century was considered to rejoice, granting indulgences of the sins the all the pilgrims that will pray in Rome ". Some consider the work a summary of the Culture of the Medium Age, an alive encyclopedia with terms and specific expressions. He portrays the nature philosophical, scientific, poetic, politics and historical of the old world - Roman, Greek, western and religious person. ALIGHIERE, Dante, 1205 - 1321, Divine Comédia/Dante Alighiere -adaptações in Portuguese of Cecília Casas. SP - 2nd Edition - Publisher Scipione. 1997 - series Reencontro.
Published: August 28, 2007
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