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Jan 15, 2021 · Beatrice’s back-story as beloved, the desire for her that powers Dante-personaggio’s journey, and the desire for his salvation that motivates Beatrice’s intervention, shows us that the author of the Commedia considers that love for an individual, and erotic love at that, has the capacity to reveal truths about our place in God’s universal order. Regina Psaki urges us to resist the ...
- Abigail Rowson
- 2021
Beatrice’s strengthening presence symbolizes the revelation of the Bible, which Dante quotes as the basis for his understanding of faith, starting with the Book of Hebrews. Dante further distinguishes between the substance that supernatural faith is grounded on and the theological argument that articulates this faith.
- Led Through The ‘Inferno’
- Guided Through The ‘Purgatorio’
- Dante’s Purification with Beatrice
- Up Into The ‘Paradiso’
Virgil leads the pilgrim through the dark, violent regions of Hell for Dante to understand God’s justice with intelligence and not react to it with sentimentality. When Dante pities the adulterous lovers Paolo and Francesca punished in the Inferno by stormy winds hurling them constantly from place to place—an image that corresponds to their wild pa...
Virgil tells Dante that Beatrice, “so lovely and blest a lady,” summoned him to serve as Dante’s guide through the regions of Inferno and Purgatory. Her luminous eyes and angelic voice petitioned Virgil to lead the pilgrim on the right path and rescue him from wandering in the wilderness of the forest and from a life of disordered desires leading h...
She expresses disappointment at Dante’s loss of the heavenly vision he once identified in her beauty and love before her early death. Why did Dante lose heart and go astray: “What trenches did you meet, what chains or rope/ did you find barring you from passing on,/that you should have divested all your hope?” Beatrice reprimands Dante for viewing ...
Led into Paradise by Beatrice, Dante’s education illuminates his understanding of the mysteries of love’s law. Amazed at the acceleration of his speed as he travels through the circles of the heavenly spheres, Dante is puzzled. Beatrice explains to Dante that his rapid traveling upwards should not surprise him any more than “a mountain stream/ shou...
The soul of Beatrice, Dante ’s earthly beloved, escorts him through Paradise. Beatrice symbolizes indirect knowledge of God, or revelation. Throughout the ascent through the heavenly spheres, Dante often looks to Beatrice, therefore, for understanding of God, as well as reassurance, until his vision is sufficiently strengthened to gaze on the divine directly.
Beatrice addresses the angels above, explaining that Dante ’s grief and guilt for his sin are fully surfacing at last. In her youth, she says, she led Dante along with her on the road to truth, but after she died, Dante lost his way, following “images of failing good” instead. Beatrice prayed for him, to no effect.
Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari [1] (Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe portiˈnaːri]; 1265 – 8 or 19 June 1290) was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia), Paradiso, and during the ...
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Dante’s poetry is the story of this impulse implanted by love; of its growth from a casual and passing mood into a master passion reaching out, not to one other human being only, but to all ...
