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La divine com�die est un des grands chefs-d'oeuvre de la litt�rature, toutes �poques confondues. Elle raconte le p�riple du po�te � travers l'enfer, le purgatoire et le paradis. Dans chacun de ces lieux, le po�te rencontre des personnages c�l�bres antiques ou contemporains que leurs actions ont men�s en ces lieux.Ainsi, Dante compl�te-t-il par son po�me en langue vulgaire les enseignements de l'Eglise sur l'au-del�. Son oeuvre est une pr�cieuse source d'information sur la soci�t� du Moyen Age.Bien s�r � travers son oeuvre Dante s'accorde-t-il le privil�ge de placer les personnages de son choix au sein de l'enfer, du purgatoire ou du paradis. Ainsi r�gle-t-il quelques comptes politiques avec les puissants qui se disput�rent l'Italie.Le succ�s de la divine com�die fut tel que le langage utilis�, le toscan, fut ainsi consacr� comme la langue italienne par excellence.Dante ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) est un homme politique, un po�te et un �crivain italien. C'est le premier grand �crivain de langue italienne.Dante est n� � l'�poque des luttes entre Guelfes et Gibelins, c'est-�-dire entre partisans du pape et partisans de l'empereur. C'est l'�poque o� le Saint-Empire Romain Germanique perd son unit� et qu'�mergent toutes ces principaut�s italiennes.Fortement impliqu� dans la politique florentine, Dante luttera contre l'ing�rence papale et, apr�s la victoire de celui-ci contre Florence, finira sa vie en exil.Didier HALL�P�E, �rudit passionn� par les classiques du Moyen-Age a s�lectionn� ces textes pour vous.
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Born Dante Alighieri in the spring of 1265 in Florence, Italy, he was known familiarly as Dante. His family was noble, but not wealthy, and Dante received the education accorded to gentlemen, studying poetry, philosophy, and theology. His first major work was Il Vita Nuova, The New Life. This brief collection of 31 poems, held together by a narrative sequence, celebrates the virtue and honor of Beatrice, Dante's ideal of beauty and purity. Beatrice was modeled after Bice di Folco Portinari, a beautiful woman Dante had met when he was nine years old and had worshipped from afar in spite of his own arranged marriage to Gemma Donati. Il Vita Nuova has a secure place in literary history: its vernacular language and mix of poetry with prose were new; and it serves as an introduction to Dante's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, in which Beatrice figures prominently. The Divine Comedy is Dante's vision of the afterlife, broken into a trilogy of the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante is given a guided tour of hell and purgatory by Virgil, the pagan Roman poet whom Dante greatly admired and imitated, and of heaven by Beatrice. The Inferno shows the souls who have been condemned to eternal torment, and included here are not only mythical and historical evil-doers, but Dante's enemies. The Purgatory reveals how souls who are not irreversibly sinful learn to be good through a spiritual purification. And The Paradise depicts further development of the just as they approach God. The Divine Comedy has been influential from Dante's day into modern times. The poem has endured not just because of its beauty and significance, but also because of its richness and piety as well as its occasionally humorous and vulgar treatment of the afterlife. In addition to his writing, Dante was active in politics. In 1302, after two years as a priore, or governor of Florence, he was exiled because of his support for the white guelfi, a moderate political party of which he was a member. After extensive travels, he stayed in Ravenna in 1319, completing The Divine Comedy there, until his death in 1321.
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