The Divine Comedy, Paradiso (King's Classics) - Couverture souple

Alighieri, Dante

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1774370824 ISBN 13 : 9781774370827

Editeur : King's Classics, 2019

Synopsis

After an initial ascension, Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven. These are concentric and spherical, as in Aristotelian and Ptolemaic cosmology. The structure of Paradiso  is based on the four cardinal virs and the three theological virs. In Paradiso , Dante meets and converses with several great saints of the Church, including Saint er, and St. John. Allegorically, the poem represents the soul’s ascent to God.
The Divine Comedy represents a ion of the afterlife of the medieval world-w as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14 th century. The narrative describes Dante’s travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, while allegorically the poem represents the soul’s journey towards God. The poem is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, commonly known by his pen name Dante Alighieri or simply as Dante, was an Italian poet. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. In the Late Middle Ages, most poetry was written in Latin, making it accessible only to the most educated readers. In De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended the use of the vernacular in literature. He would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the Divine Comedy; this highly unorthodox choice set a precedent that important later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and his depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art. He is cited as an influence on John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer and Alfred Tennyson, among many others. In addition, the first use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is attributed to him. He is described as the "father" of the Italian language, and in Italy, he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet"). Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called the tre corone ("three crowns") of Italian literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: King's Classics
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1774370824
• ISBN 13: 9781774370827
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
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