La Divina Comedia

by Dante Alighieri

La "Divina Comedia" es la relación de un viaje en que, en su tránsito desde el Infierno hasta el Cielo, el autor encuentra su propia identidad. En esta obra de enorme fuerza expresiva Dante fundió el pensamiento filosófico con las ideas políticas y los conocimientos literarios. En ella, cada personaje, cada episodio, tiene un profundo significado que va más allá de la simple anécdota. La versión poética de Abilio Echeverría ha logrado respetar plenamente el sentido, el metro y el ritmo de la obra, sin despojarla de su grandeza. Completa la presente edición un prólogo a cargo de Carlos Alvar que recrea la biografía de Dante e ilustra el proceso de creación que alumbró la obra.

Genres: Poetry

736 pages, Paperback

About the author

Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the comic story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms the classic trio of Italian authors. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state Florence in 1265. He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old and she was some months younger. In fact, Beatrice married another man, Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless plays an extremely important role in his poetry. Dante attributed all the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagined, in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, that she was his guardian angel who alternately berated and encouraged him on his search for salvation.

Politics as well as love deeply influenced Dante's literary and emotional life. Renaissance Florence was a thriving, but not a peaceful city: different opposing factions continually struggled for dominance there. The Guelfs and the Ghibellines were the two major factions, and in fact that division was important in all of Italy and other countries as well. The Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor were political rivals for much of this time period, and in general the Guelfs were in favor of the Pope, while the Ghibellines supported Imperial power. By 1289 in the battle of Campaldino the Ghibellines largely disappeared from Florence. Peace, however, did not insue. Instead, the Guelf party divided between the Whites and the Blacks (Dante was a White Guelf). The Whites were more opposed to Papal power than the Blacks, and tended to favor the emperor, so in fact the preoccupations of the White Guelfs were much like those of the defeated Ghibellines. In this divisive atmosphere Dante rose to a position of leadership. in 1302, while he was in Rome on a diplomatic mission to the Pope, the Blacks in Florence seized power with the help of the French (and pro-Pope) Charles of Valois. The Blacks exiled Dante, confiscating his goods and condemning him to be burned if he should return to Florence.

Dante never returned to Florence. He wandered from city to city, depending on noble patrons there. Between 1302 and 1304 some attempts were made by the exiled Whites to retrieve their position in Florence, but none of these succeeded and Dante contented himself with hoping for the appearance of a new powerful Holy Roman Emperor who would unite the country and banish strife. Henry VII was elected Emperor in 1308, and indeed laid seige to Florence in 1312, but was defeated, and he died a year later, destroying Dante's hopes. Dante passed from court to court, writing passionate political and moral epistles and finishing his Divine Comedy, which contains the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. He finally died in Ravenna in 1321.

Reviews

[Salud Yáñez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alcanzado por fin el Empíreo con su rosa cándida, me quedo sin duda con El Infierno.

[isaac · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5
como nom vou ser dramático se justo acabei o livro e abriu-se o túnel em que ía o meu trem para dar-me a bem-vinda à galiza

[Jimena Sánchez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Admiro como la estructura hace alusión a la Santísima Trinidad. Me encantó que el prólogo sea de 33 páginas; disfruté mucho los cantos finales en Paraíso que abrieron mi corazón hacia Aquel que todo lo hizo y en algunos versos se me puso la piel chinita al pensar en el que en la cruz murió por mi. Me queda claro que es una obra de arte, pero también que no es para todos. Creo que esta edición no es la mejor para leer por primera vez La Divina Comedia (como fue en mi caso), ya que es una lectura bastante compleja y pesada, por lo que se vuelve tediosa y difícil de seguir.

[J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best piece of art ever written

[Litterae Dependens · Rating 5 out of 5]

La obra más grande jamás escrita.

[Francinett Cruz · Rating 5 out of 5]

me encantan los clubs de lectura que nos presentan retos, que nos dan libros que mas que considerarse clásicos, sean libros de los cuales aprendamos.
yo creía haber leído anteriormente esta obra y NO, al parecer solo leí el infierno y ya.

ahora veo y sé que hay un purgatorio y un paraíso de Dante...

el infierno sigue siendo algo turbio, y muy difícil de procesar todo lo que dante representa, pero el purgatorio es CRUEL hasta parece un infierno sin fuego y el paraíso, WOW sigo procesando lo que Dante dice sobre estos lugares.

mis respetos para los que se lo estudian y le sacan mayor provecho aun, que los que solo lo leemos y con muchas ayudas.

se los recomiendo solo si sientes la curiosidad, ya que es un libro pesado.

[J. M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un libro interesante, aunque no es amigable al principio. El infierno y el purgatorio me gustaron más que el paraíso.

[Silvia Oyarzún Allende · Rating 5 out of 5]

Las primeras dos partes fueron mis favoritas

[Lily · Rating 1 out of 5]

No me reí.

[Enematico x · Rating 5 out of 5]

As 5 estrelas são um vexame até para o último verso do poema. Absolutamente excelso.