Dante describes himself in the first person. After waking up in the dark forest, he lost his way and began a fantastic journey. After encountering wolves, lions and wolves, he was terrified. At this time, Virgil, Dante's favorite Roman poet, came to the rescue. With Virgil's help, Dante went to hell and purgatory. Hell is a * * * nine-story building, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, like a big funnel. Anyone who did bad things before his death, whether the Pope or ordinary people, will be punished in hell. The description of this area is very similar to Plato's description in The Republic. The sin of the soul in purgatory is lighter. It floats on the sea and is divided into seven layers. After purgatory, Virgil retreated, Dante's lover Betty Cai Li came to meet him, and he entered heaven. Heaven is also divided into nine floors. More than nine floors is the ideal life realm of human beings, a place full of love.
Although The Divine Comedy describes Dante's dream, it is a reflection of reality. Beautiful poetry contains the poet's strong love and hate. Hell actually refers to a society ruled by popes and priests in religious cloaks. They are doing shady things, and people's lives are sad and painful. Purgatory is the only way to enter heaven. Heaven is an ideal state that people dream of.
132 1 year, just after the manuscript of Paradise in Divine Comedy was completed, Dante fell ill and died in Lavan on September 14 of that year. Hundreds of years later, Florence remembered the poets of her own country and wanted to return the remains of the great poets from Lavan. Can Lavaine agree to this unreasonable request? Resolutely refused: "Shut the door when you are alive, but keep his bones after you die!" " "Dante's body is still in Lavan.
Dante believes that the ultimate goal of a society is to let people living in it give full play to their potential talents, and the completion of this goal requires a peaceful environment, which can only be formed under the rule of the emperor, so he resolutely opposes putting the Pope above the emperor. In this respect, Dante's thought reflects the progress of the times. But he beautified the emperor, claiming that imperial power was directly commanded by God's thoughts, which showed that he was idealistic and backward.
The two sides of his thought are the same, so is Divine Comedy, which not only reflects the people's will and the realistic people's nature, but also has some contradictions in form and content in terms of medieval feudalism and propaganda of religious world outlook. But the dominant part is the positive part, so we say that Divine Comedy conforms to the trend of social development. Although it does not explicitly put forward individualism, we still regard it as its bud.
Dante expressed his strong patriotic feelings in The Divine Comedy. He strongly opposed separatism and longed for risorgimento to establish an Italian empire that inherited the tradition of ancient Rome. The poem firmly says that in order to realize the unification of Italy, the spearhead of the struggle must be aimed at feudal forces and reactionary forces. In his poems, Dante throws corrupt officials into the seventh hell and the Pope into the eighth. It can be seen that Dante hates the Pope and those who split the country. The reason why Divine Comedy was not written in Latin is that he loves and has confidence in his mother tongue.
In The Divine Comedy, the poet also put forward the spirit of freedom, praising free thoughts and free love. Dante said through Virgil that freedom is a treasure worth buying with life; Only when people have free will can they create and enjoy life; Free love is a perfect and beautiful state.
Dante dealt a difficult but heavy blow to the supreme papacy at that time with his work Divine Comedy. Dante and The Divine Comedy have been shining in the history of civilization in Italy, Europe and even the world.