12-05-2017, 12:05 AM
Pixie Dust wrote:
Yeah. Dante certainly wasn't a conventional thinker. Right, and Beatrice was no Saint. Yet, in Dante's perspective she was. It was very personal between the two, something Dante never quite explained in enough detail to justify his opinion to his readers. She's just this majestic and beautiful creature and he leaves it at that. Strange, really. For someone as esteemed as Dante, one would assume he would offer more. He's seemingly evasive in certain aspects regarding Beatrice.
I don't know that Beatrice was not a Saint -- IS not a Saint. Maybe she is.
We know very little about the real Beatrice's life... and although anyone can read Dante, even now, the mysteries of life and death, Heaven and Hell, these are something else entirely.
Yeah. Dante certainly wasn't a conventional thinker. Right, and Beatrice was no Saint. Yet, in Dante's perspective she was. It was very personal between the two, something Dante never quite explained in enough detail to justify his opinion to his readers. She's just this majestic and beautiful creature and he leaves it at that. Strange, really. For someone as esteemed as Dante, one would assume he would offer more. He's seemingly evasive in certain aspects regarding Beatrice.I don't know that Beatrice was not a Saint -- IS not a Saint. Maybe she is.
We know very little about the real Beatrice's life... and although anyone can read Dante, even now, the mysteries of life and death, Heaven and Hell, these are something else entirely.