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Monday, June 12, 2006

   Ooops...


You know, it just occured to me today that some people might have no clue what book I was talking about. Hehheh. Ok, The Divine Comedy was written around the 1300's by an Italian poet named Dante Alighieri. It's a description of his view of the Christian afterlife, which is divided into three sections; Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Now, the most famous of these three is his description of Hell, often published on it's own under the name Dante's Inferno. Most people are more familiar with that than the work as a whole. And really, there isn't anything comedic about the work. It was called a "comedy" because, in Dante's day, there were two kinds of poetry; High (Tragedy) and Low (Comedy), and because Dante wrote it in the Italian language, which was considered low and vulgar, it was a comedy.
Now, as for my quote of the day in my last entry, I enjoy that line so much because it is a reference to The Divine Comedy. Dante divides Hell into nine levels. The first is a pleasant but sorrowful place for the unbaptized and those vituous pagans born before the birth of Christ, and each level after contains punishments of greater and greater severity depending on the sins of the souls, leading up to the final level, where Satan himself resides, and those who committed what Dante considered to be the deepest sin, betrayal to a master or benefactor, are punished. So yeah. And really, for a work that a surprising number of people have never even heard of, it is very important and influential. Along with Milton's Paradise Lost, it really helped to form our perceptions of the more... unpleasant side of the Christian afterlife, considering the fact that the Bible really says very little about Hell and Satan. And now that I've apparently given a miniature lecture on all this, I'll be on my way ^_^

-Quote of the Day-
"It is a peculiarity of our side of the family that as we grow older, we start to remember all the horrible details of our childhood. On the day he died, my grandfather told me he had just remembered the very moment of his own birth. In fact, I rather think it was the shock of that particular memory that killed the old boy."
-Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure by P.B. Kerr-
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