The only reason why I want
to share with you this masterpiece written by Dante A., is for its amazing
connection with the Catholic religion, but let me try to give you some of the
knowledge that almost every Italian learns from high school on.
In fact every Italian kid starts to read the Divine comedy,
when at middle school (eleven
y/o)
we are taught about the hell, purgatory and heaven (main structure),later we
read few “canti”, we have to write essays on their content, to demonstrate not
only that we understand the meaning of the canto, but (probably very much more) that we
can relate what Dante wrote 7 centuries ago to our daily life – which makes me
wonder if this is done for our kids in the USA, but let me now make some bullet
points about information about the comedy and its writer that I doubt
are very well known in the USA.
Let me start saying that The Divine Comedy was written by
Dante Alighieri (last
name with territorial reference) in what became the “modern Italian”
that every Italian has been using since, before ever region in Italy was a
State with a different language, from the “Frenchy”
accent/dialect in Piemonte to the “Greeky”
dialect, in Sicily, in fact I believe that it was the Divine Comedy that
unified my country, well before the Garibaldi war effort (unità ) – from
this la Divina Commedia is an Italian
long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, who begun to write it around 1308 and completed in 1320, a year
before his death in 1321. ... In Dante's work, Virgil is presented as the human
reason (hell + purgatory) and
Beatrice is presented as divine knowledge (heaven).
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When asked about the source of the material used
to write his comedy, Dante always said that he just wanted to put in writing some
of the stories that the street bums of the XII century were telling to each
other while looking for something (anything
J) to eat.
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Then there’s the sign at the entrance of Hell,
that’ been debated for centuries: “leave every hope thou who enters” which in
my (injured)
intelligence can be paraphrased in this way (maybe) The third canto of the Inferno by Dante
Alighieri has as its setting the “Antinferno”, or rather the place of the
underworld where the sloths are kept and which precedes the entrance to hell
itself. When Dante and Virgil arrive in front of the door of Hell, the first
cannot help but notice the dark and mysterious writing placed on it.
THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of Power divine,
Supremest Wisdom and primeval Love
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Not having immediately grasped the meaning of the
sentence, Dante asks to Virgil for the meaning, the latter warns him by telling
him that he should not be afraid of entering hell and that he should rather
prepare himself psychologically to face the vision of the sad souls of the
damned leaving every hesitation (suspicion) and
hesitancy, this being a place where people who have lost God, the intellectual
good par excellence, meet.The great beauty of the comedy is that Dante is
guided through hell and purgatory by Virgil but as he “walks” into heaven it’ll
be his eternal love – Beatrice – who’ll be guiding him. Here is when I want to invite you
all to go to the link I put below, that’s a very simple google search about the
comedy and its author…….don’t want to write a whole book here about the
comedy…..you can find tens of thousands of copies already around the world,
pretty much in every single language still used today (almost as many as the holy bible). In fact my reason to talk about this is the unbelievable (to me) “appropriation”
- done by the Catholic Church, the
Vatican and the entire Christianity - of the main “structure” with explanation of
the Catholic afterlife J. It’s actually even more than the Christians, who very often
say something fully related to the comedy……”if you won’t make your homework…..you’ll go to hell where
Beelzebub will eat your brain directly out of your cracked open skull”
(FUCK! daddy… gimmie a pen with da book….. NOW!!).
In fact, has anyone ever read Jesus telling to someone else
that “hell isn’t much fun and it’s where the souls of the sinners will end up
after they die”? And how many Vatican soldiers (priests) threaten sure hell UNLESS you donate (to Jesus or to the church you like so much……BUT
NOT TO ME!!.........soldiers always say) the more you want…..up
to how much you can afford?
As I’m writing this I’m sure that all “fervent believers”
after their death will be sitting on a stool in front of (from their own consciousness) their
image of God, who will decide H.T.F your soul will spend “eternity”.
I bet that hundreds of comedians make fun of the God (and its existence), of the
Catholic religion (i.e.
too dangerous to make fun of Islamism) and predict that this is going
to be the millennium when every religion will disappear, meaning every war on
earth.
In fact I fully agree with the idea that most of the past wars
we fought in the last millennium was a religious one…..including communism vs.
capitalism including the Vietnam War.
Lastly, don’t get me started to mention what the “holy
crusades” truly meant, with the thousands of people (families) who
died, on both sides.
Let me simply anticipate that soon I’ll be posting on the “worldwide
conflict” of the real existence of Jesus Christ…..in my own mind NOT an “extraterrestrial”
(as per Biglino) but very
much closer to earth, the less complicated fabrication of the Roman Empire of which and
my treasures are all part………at least genetically.
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