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Having been banished from his home and friends, Dante created in The Divine Comedy a new life for himself. Denied a voice in Florence, he recreated himself in fiction and gave this poetic "self" a voice that would ring through the ages. What we have in the poem is, in effect, a "virtual Dante." In fact we know far more about this virtual Dante than we know about the real historical person . It is this virtual self who speaks to us across the centuries and is our guide through the landscape of medieval soul-space. (en) |
