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In Divine Comedy, love must be corrected, purified, sanctified, and ennobled.
Dante, being first called by name in the Canto XXX, is not greeted kindly by Beatrice as she asks him how dare he be here among the bliss. Beatrice calls out Dante, “broken would be the will of God if Dante were allowed to go further with no tear or penitence.” Upon facing the truth, his heart–like a piece of ice– turns to water and breath, bursting from his mouth and his eyes (alluding to the icy bottom of Inferno; Dan ...more
Dante, being first called by name in the Canto XXX, is not greeted kindly by Beatrice as she asks him how dare he be here among the bliss. Beatrice calls out Dante, “broken would be the will of God if Dante were allowed to go further with no tear or penitence.” Upon facing the truth, his heart–like a piece of ice– turns to water and breath, bursting from his mouth and his eyes (alluding to the icy bottom of Inferno; Dan ...more
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