Questo libro riporta due rarissimi testi attribuiti a Dante Alighieri: Il Fiore (1283-1287), un poemetto di 232 sonetti: riscrittura compendiosa del Roman de la Rose; e il Detto dAmore (coevo del precedente): un poemetto di 480 settenari incentrato sullamor cortese, anchesso tratto (in parte) dal celebre romanzo francese Roman de la Rose (1280).
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Italian: Divina Commedia Italian pronunciation: [di?vi?na kom?m??dja]) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poems imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.The narrative takes as its literal subject the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward, and describes Dantes travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven.Allegorically the poem represents the souls journey towards God, beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin (Inferno), followed by the penitent Christian life (Purgatorio), which is then followed by the souls ascent to God (Paradiso). Dante draws on medieval Roman Catholic theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy derived from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".
n the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in its complexity. In Dante's imagining, Paradise is formed out of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, beginning with the Moon and ending with the Empyrean. Dante must traverse these ethereal regions guided by his beloved Beatrice, as a means of attaining wisdom, revelation and beatitude.Containing some of Dante's finest poetry, Paradise is an enduring vision of grace and a powerful allegory for the struggle for redemption. This dual-text edition completes J.G. Nichols's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy.
«Tots els meus pensaments parlen d'amor», diu Dante; però, quina és la veritable essència d'aquest amor? En aquesta obra hi ha la resposta. A través d'un relat en prosa i en vers, de vegades lleuger
Entre 1292 y 1293, Dante escribe la Vita Nuova, conjunto de poemas y prosas que desarrolla una serie de visiones y alegorías, así como de motivos estilísticos, sobre el fondo de un relato autobiográfico. Vida nuevaª quiere significar la edad juvenil, pero tambien la transformaciUn del poeta merced al sentimiento amoroso y a la experiencia poetica capaz de organizar todo sentimiento. La figura central de la obra, aparte del propio Dante, es Bice Portinari, la Beatriz real, que se convierte poco a poco en agente de salvaciUn, anunciando a la gloriosa Beatriz del Paradiso. En el capitulo XLII y ?ltimo de la Vita Nuova, Dante se propone decir de Beatriz lo que nunca fue dicho de ningunaª, frase que tiene la virtud de ser un nexo natural entre la Vita y la Commedia, dos obras que se esclarecen mutuamente en muchos aspectos y forman un sistema coherente.
