![]() ![]() ![]() He started writing The Divine Comedy in 1308, and finished it in 1321. The average reader will spend 6 hours and 24 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute). He was a philosopher and theologist involved with religion and political issues in medieval Florence, his hometown. Reading Length provides a calculation for the word count of this book, find out how long it will take you to read READING LENGTH. ![]() These secondary readings consider the poem from a variety of perspectives: as an historical document produced at a specific space and time an aesthetic object which uses particular narrative strategies to produce meaning and an ethical and political treatise that both problematizes and prioritizes a certain set of values. The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem written by an Italian poet, Dante Alighieri. Each class will require a close reading of several canti of Dante’s poem, along with a supplementary reading. Empire, Florentine factionalism), and literary (Virgil, Arthurian romance) contexts, as well as an exploration of its influence on later thinkers, artists, poets, and popular culture (Machiavelli, Botticelli, Borges, Eliot, Rodin, Dali, ‘Se7en’). A close reading of Dante’s whole poem (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise) in its philosophical (Plato, Aristotle), theological (Augustine, Aquinas), historical (Papacy vs. ![]()
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