What Dante offers in the “Divine Comedy” is a journey beyond politics, “from the life of the senses to a life of the spirit”, as Lino Pertile of Harvard University puts it
Gaddi’s stipulation was a gesture of appreciation to the poet’s family, the Alighieri, who previously sponsored the chapel. Even so, as David Ekserdjian remarks in a recently published study, “The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece”it was an extraordinary choice.
For non-Italians, too, Dante belongs in a pantheon of the West’s paramount literary geniuses, alongside Homer, Cervantes and Shakespeare. In the English-speaking world, his influence can be discerned in the work of Chaucer, Milton, Shelley and T.S. Eliot, among many others. The, the interlocking rhyme scheme that Dante first set down in writing, and which propels readers through the “Divine Comedy”, has been used by poets ever since.
What Dante offers in the “Divine Comedy” is a journey beyond politics, “from the life of the senses to a life of the spirit”, as Mr Pertile puts it. That may renew his appeal in a bruised world that in short order has endured a financial crisis, a recession and a pandemic, and now faces the cataclysm of global warming.
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