![]() MedXXIV:1 Vanni Fucci bitten by a serpent is transformed to ashes and remade like the phoenix. MedXXII:1 Ciampolo and the demons provide a moment of burlesque concealing a serious thrust at the Florentines who exiled Dante partly on trumped-up corruption charges. His acceptance of bribery by the Eastern Emperor, Michael Paleologus, enables Dante via the Donation of Constantine to point up the involvement of the Church wrongly in temporal matters. MedXIX:1 Pope Nicholas III represents the corrupted Papacy. MedXV:1 Brunetto Latini the sodomite’s ‘baked visage’ begins a subtle tribute to an individual who influenced and possibly taught Dante. MedXIII:1 Piero Delle Vigne is the example of a wronged man, the victim of envy, who was a suicide. MedX:1 Farinata as the example of aristocratic pride, tradition, magnanimity and free-thinking obduracy. They usually embody some generic quality or drama. MedVIII:1 Filippo Argenti is one of a long line of memorable individuals conjured up by a situation, phrase, mini-biography, interrogation, command, plea etc. MedII:1 Nevertheless the journey of the spirit is essentially that of the single one, the ‘one, alone’. ![]() MedI:4 The spirit-guides provide help and sympathy to the Individual who is no longer totally isolated. The DC as history, biography, and spiritual journey of the living author. Dante implies the revelatory and inspirational nature of his Vision. MedLI:1 Imagination operates on the rapt mind, as a light formed from heaven, or a divine will from there. MedXXXIV:1 Dante invokes the Reader’s powers of Imagination, when words fail him. ![]() ![]() Meditations on the Divine Comedy: Index IJKLM ![]()
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