Présentation de l'éditeur
This little book, although it is meant especially for young students and beginners in Dantesque studies, is not a work of compilation. I have aimed to blend in a new synthesis, with appropriate and necessary emendations, the data offered by tradition concerning the genesis of the Commedia and its doctrinal content, basing myself on the points which I have discussed at length in my work, now nearing its termination, significati reconditi della Commedia di Dante eil stio fine supremo (H idden Meanings of the Divine Comedy of Dante and its Supreme End )(L eghorn, Giusti). I do not consider it a useless undertaking to try to restrain the interpretative caprice of the many who, without adequate preparation, entertain themselves with the symbols, the allegories, the philosophical concepts expressed or suggested in the poem. To fish up this or that concept out of the church fathers or out of the mare magnum of the Summa theologica of A quinas, in order later to discover it in the Commedia is the easiest thing in the world! Hence the wild wood of arbitrary interpretations, in which one goes astray if there be no guiding criteria. We need an organic and simple system of general interpretation, by means of which the individual allegories may cease to be susceptible of dissimilar or contradictory explanations. And I offer such an interpretation epitomized in these pages, very far from pretending to have resolved every difficulty, but thoroughly convinced of being on the right course.
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