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Jan 15, 2021 · She delivers a peace to Dante and overcomes the antagonisms inherent in medieval theology, and calms the pilgrim’s questioning mind. As well, in her very own personhood, Beatrice embodies and exemplifies for the pilgrim truths about creation and its Creator that only she can, as Dante’s beloved.
- Abigail Rowson
- 2021
- Led Through The ‘Inferno’
- Guided Through The ‘Purgatorio’
- Dante’s Purification with Beatrice
- Up Into The ‘Paradiso’
Virgil leads the pilgrim through the dark, violent regions of Hell for Dante to understand God’s justice with intelligence and not react to it with sentimentality. When Dante pities the adulterous lovers Paolo and Francesca punished in the Inferno by stormy winds hurling them constantly from place to place—an image that corresponds to their wild pa...
Virgil tells Dante that Beatrice, “so lovely and blest a lady,” summoned him to serve as Dante’s guide through the regions of Inferno and Purgatory. Her luminous eyes and angelic voice petitioned Virgil to lead the pilgrim on the right path and rescue him from wandering in the wilderness of the forest and from a life of disordered desires leading h...
She expresses disappointment at Dante’s loss of the heavenly vision he once identified in her beauty and love before her early death. Why did Dante lose heart and go astray: “What trenches did you meet, what chains or rope/ did you find barring you from passing on,/that you should have divested all your hope?” Beatrice reprimands Dante for viewing ...
Led into Paradise by Beatrice, Dante’s education illuminates his understanding of the mysteries of love’s law. Amazed at the acceleration of his speed as he travels through the circles of the heavenly spheres, Dante is puzzled. Beatrice explains to Dante that his rapid traveling upwards should not surprise him any more than “a mountain stream/ shou...
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Sep 13, 2021 · Beatrice leads the reader both literally and figuratively into the realm of the divine, speaking eloquently about theology along the way. It is Beatrice who brings Dante face-to-face with God himself. “In my opinion, Dante’s most significant contribution to medieval Christianity was reconciling romantic love with spiritual love.
Because the Inferno places Beatrice in Heaven, near God, her aid of Dante represents the grace by which human beings grow spiritually. Beatrice is described as very lovely, with “eyes...flashing brighter than the stars” and an “angel’s voice”; her beauty represents the beauties of heaven and inspires Dante to press forward in his ...
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Dante and Beatrice: A Variety of Religious Experience. By Jefferson B. Fletcher. February 1910 Issue. A VARIETY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. THE definition of poetry as a “ criticism of...
Beatrice is the figuration of an earthly woman who, breaking all traditions, achieves the highest, most sublime symbolism of a divine being, a "figura Christi" and "typus Trinitatis" (a figure of Christ and a type of the Trinity).
