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Genius: Dante Alighieri
Cathy Boffa-Doan
HUM 100
Ms. ... 18, 2003
Genius: Dante Alighieri
During the high middle ages between the years of 900 C. ... During this time a genius named Dante Alighieri became to be the greatest poet of the age (Sporre, 2002, p. ... Dante was a genius because he wrote a profound work of the time titled Divine Comedy. The reason that this work was profound and quite remarkable was because when Dante began his Divine Comedy around the year 1308, it was the first time in history of imaginative literature that an author had placed himself at the center of his tale, and the poem endures as not only the first but the most effective epic of self (Siegel, 2002, p1). He was also a genius because before him most writers used Latin in their work but he was able to elevate everyday Italian to the status of a rich and expressive language suitable for poetry. ...
In a letter to his patron, Can Grande, the ruler of Verona, Dante famously described the inner motion of the Divine Comedy, or La Divina Commedia, a poem, in three parts (Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise)), about Dantes spiritual journey from darkness to light, guided through hell and purgatory by Virgil, Dantes ideal poet, and led through paradise by Beatrice, his ideal love (Siegel, 2002, p3). ... Lewis in his solid and informative little biography, Dante explained that the poem did not possess one meaning but might rather have several meanings. Dante goes on to designate the poems levels as the literal, the moral, the allegorical and the anagogical, the last signifying an ultimate truth about existence.
Approximate Word count = 1343
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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