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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri (Italian: [duˈrante ˈdeʎʎi aliˈɡjɛːri]), simply called Dante (Italian: [ˈdante], UK /ˈdænti/, US /ˈdɑːnteɪ/; c. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.[1] In Italy he is called il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") and il Poeta. He, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called "the three fountains" and "the three crowns". Dante is also called "the Father of the Italian language".[2] Life[edit] Portrait of Dante, from a fresco in the Palazzo dei Giudici, Florence Dante claimed that his family descended from the ancient Romans (Inferno, XV, 76), but the earliest relative he could mention by name was Cacciaguida degli Elisei (Paradiso, XV, 135), born no earlier than about 1100. Dante in Verona, by Antonio Cotti Legacy[edit]

ALIGHIERI DANTE - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri: De Sanctis, Petrocchi, Sapegno, Botticelli, Dorè, Stradano ..... La Divina Commedia on line è completa, commentata e soprattutto innovativa. La consultazione di qualsiasi canto prevede la possibilità di cliccare sulla parola prescelta e consultare la nota collegata. E' stato studiato un metodo grazie al quale non è più necessario spostare l'occhio su e giù. Dante Alighieri scrisse La Divina Commedia perchè tutti la potessero leggere... grazie a Luigi Minnaja questo oggi è possibile con un semplice click del mouse! La Divina Commedia consta di più di quattordicimila (esattamente 14.223) endecasillabi, distribuiti in cento canti di oscillante ampiezza (da un minimo di 115 a un massimo di 160 versi), raggruppati in tre cantiche quantitativamente prossime: -l'Inferno composto di 34 canti (il primo è introduttivo all'intero poema), in totale 4720 versi; - il Purgatorio di 33 canti per una somma di 4755 versi; -il Paradiso di 33 canti con 4758 versi in tutto. L'opera. Le regioni d'Italia in lingua russa MediaSoft s.r.l.

Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ]; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.[1] Baudelaire the poet[edit] Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. Early life[edit] Baudelaire was educated in Lyon, where he boarded. Portrait by Emile Deroy (1820–1846) Published career[edit] The Flowers of Evil[edit] Final years[edit]

Dante Alighieri on the Web Russell and Eliot The World of Dante Dante's Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday. After meeting his guide, the eminent Roman poet Virgil, in a mythical dark wood, the two poets begin their descent through a baleful world of doleful shades, horrifying tortures, and unending lamentation. This edition of the Inferno is edited in XML (Extensible Markup Language), which allows users to perform searches for a wide range of entities across the entire poem. Above the Italian and English texts users will see a band listing six categories. Every canto also contains visual material, keyed to specific passages. Dante's Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell. Every canto also contains visual material, keyed to specific passages.

Bertrand Russell Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 20th century.[58] He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, colleague G. E. Moore, and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians.[55] With A. Russell was a prominent anti-war activist; he championed anti-imperialism[60][61] and went to prison for his pacifism during World War I.[62] Later, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler, then criticised Stalinist totalitarianism, attacked the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War, and was an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament.[63] In 1950 Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought Biography Early life and background Young Bertrand Russell Childhood and adolescence University and first marriage Early career Russell in 1907.

Paradiso (Dante) The Paradiso assumes the medieval view of the Universe, with the Earth surrounded by concentric spheres containing planets and stars. The Paradiso begins at the top of Mount Purgatory, at noon on the Wednesday after Easter. After ascending through the sphere of fire believed to exist in the earth's upper atmosphere (Canto I), Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven, to the Empyrean, which is the abode of God. During the course of his journey, Dante meets and converses with several blessed souls. "But all those souls grace the Empyrean; and each of them has gentle life though some sense the Eternal Spirit more, some less However, for Dante's benefit (and the benefit of his readers), he is "as a sign"[3] shown various souls in planetary and stellar spheres that have some appropriate connotation. On visiting the Moon, Beatrice explains to Dante the reasons for its markings, Canto 2. The florin, the "damned flower," Canto 9. An imperial eagle.

3's Company: Eliot, Vivienne & Russell Today (Jan. 4) was a sad for for literary world; Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960 (he got his Nobel Prize only about 2 years prior) and T.S. Eliot died in London in 1965. I wrote an article of “Three’s Company: T.S. Eliot, Vivienne Eliot and Bertrand Russell” in 2007. My curiosity about this photo led me to the readings of many books (The Letters of T.S. After spending 8 years at Harvard, T.S. Eliot met Vivienne (AKA Vivien or Vivie) Haigh-Wood at a dance in London in March 1915 and they wed 3 months later, thus beginning a high drama of a marriage that is worthy of a literary work or as some critics claimed that the trial and trepidation of marriage was the drive behind his great work—a tragedy with comic flavor. T.S. Bertrand Russell never mentioned his affair with Vivienne in his autobiography and he destroyed all the letters Vivienne wrote him (the intimate relationship lasted between 1915 and 1918). Why did T.S. T.S. T.S. At age of 68, T.S.

Divine Comedy: Paradiso Wikipedia | The Empyrean This content is from Wikipedia. GradeSaver is providing this content as a courtesy until we can offer a professionally written study guide by one of our staff editors. We do not consider this content professional or citable. Please use your discretion when relying on it. From the Primum Mobile, Dante ascends to a region beyond physical existence, the Empyrean, which is the abode of God. "Like sudden lightning scattering the spirits of sight so that the eye is then too weak to act on other things it would perceive,such was the living light encircling me, leaving me so enveloped by its veil of radiance that I could see no thing.The Love that calms this heaven always welcomes into Itself with such a salutation, to make the candle ready for its flame Dante sees an enormous rose, symbolising divine love,[45] the petals of which are the enthroned souls of the faithful (both those of the Old Testament and those of the New). St. Within these circles Dante can discern the human form of Christ.

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