Word: commedia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...under the influence of idealized love Dante views the whole spiritual world. The "Divina Commedia" offers unquestionably the best opportunity for studying his ideas and purposes. What Dante sees in his vision of Hell is the natural reaction of conduct upon character: the suffering which he portrays has not been arbitrarily inflicted, but is the logical result of sin. His mind, despite his liberal tendencies, was of the seventeenth century type. The grim symbolism of his Hell is as stern and terrible as human realism can contemplate...
...addition to the subjects announced last year for the Dante prize, the following have been proposed for the years 1901-02 and 1902-03: (1) A collection of all the passages in the prose works of Dante directly illustrative of the Divina Commedia, arranged in order as a comment upon it; (2) a critical comment of DeVulgari Eloquio...