Another point that is often overlooked is that the role of Miss Beya Richie actually involves another feature of Dante's literary style-the love of knights.
Dante was greatly influenced by "knight's love". He wrote many lyric poems to praise his unfulfilled love compared with Beecher di Foucault Bottine. And this woman happened to be based on Miss Beya Ritchie in The Divine Comedy.
Let's talk about what "knight's love" is.
Tracing back to the origin of chivalrous love, one part comes from Ovid, an ancient Roman writer, and the other part comes from Arabic literature in Iberian Peninsula. Later, after summing up some bards, I got this concept: a man's free love for a distant woman.
Broadly speaking, men are humble knights who serve women, and women who are loved are powerful masters. The knights are loyal and brave, and the hostess is arrogant and out of reach.
In the love of knights, it is usually the lower knights who love, suffer and undertake heroic undertakings to attract upper-class women; And women greet this kind of love in a passive way. Therefore, another tradition of knight love has been formed: a kind of free love with a sense of secrecy and distance.
Of course, this tradition had a great influence on later society.