12-04-2017, 12:05 AM
I know I asked you to do Muse, but I didn't think it would get to this level.
First of all, there are two Beatrices. Everyone knows there are two Beatrices, and I think even Dante knew there were two Beatrices -- but the Beatrice in Dante's real life was not at all the Beatrice he wrote into the Divine Comedy.
"New readers often wonder how such a serious work may be called a "comedy". In the classical sense the word comedy refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, in which events tend toward not only a happy or amusing ending but one influenced by a Providential will that orders all things to an ultimate good. By this meaning of the word, as Dante himself wrote in a letter to Cangrande I della Scala, the progression of the pilgrimage from Hell to Paradise is the paradigmatic expression of comedy, since the work begins with the pilgrim's moral confusion and ends with the vision of God."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri
First of all, there are two Beatrices. Everyone knows there are two Beatrices, and I think even Dante knew there were two Beatrices -- but the Beatrice in Dante's real life was not at all the Beatrice he wrote into the Divine Comedy.
"New readers often wonder how such a serious work may be called a "comedy". In the classical sense the word comedy refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, in which events tend toward not only a happy or amusing ending but one influenced by a Providential will that orders all things to an ultimate good. By this meaning of the word, as Dante himself wrote in a letter to Cangrande I della Scala, the progression of the pilgrimage from Hell to Paradise is the paradigmatic expression of comedy, since the work begins with the pilgrim's moral confusion and ends with the vision of God."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri