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At about 6:00 p.m. on Saturday evening, Virgil and Dante begin their escape from Hell by clambering down Satan's ragged fur, feet-first. When they reach Satan's genitalia, the poets pass through the center of the universe and of gravity from the Northern Hemisphere of land to the Southern Hemisphere of water. When Virgil changes direction and begins to climb "upward" towards the surface of the Earth at the antipodes, Dante, in his confusion, initially believes they are returning to Hell. Virgil indicates that the time is halfway between the canonical hours of Prime (6:00 a.m.) and Terce (9:00 a.m.) — that is, 7:30a.m. of the same Holy Saturday which was just about to end. Dante is confused as to how, after about an hour and a half of climbing, it is now apparently morning. Virgil explains that it is as a result of passing through the Earth's center into the Southern Hemisphere, which is twelve hours ahead of Jerusalem, the central city of the Northern Hemisphere (where, therefore, it is currently 7:30p.m.).Main article: Purgatorio Dante, accompanied by Virgil, consoles the souls of the envious, from the Canto III of Purgatorio Peri, Hiram (1955). "The Original Plan of the Divine Comedy". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 18 (3/4): 189–210. doi: 10.2307/750179. JSTOR 750179. S2CID 244492114. The Divine Comedy is an allegory of human life presented as a visionary trip through the Christian afterlife, written as a warning to a corrupt society to steer itself to the path of righteousness: "to remove those living in this life from the state of misery, and lead them to the state of felicity." The poem is written in the first person (from the poet’s perspective) and follows Dante's journey through the three Christian realms of the dead: hell, purgatory and finally heaven. The Roman poet Virgil guides Dante through hell ( Inferno) and purgatory ( Purgatorio), while Beatrice guides him through heaven ( Paradiso). The journey lasts from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300 (placing it before Dante’s factual exile from Florence, which looms throughout the Inferno and serves as an undercurrent to the poet’s journey). Years after his marriage to Gemma, he claims to have met Beatrice again; he wrote several sonnets to Beatrice but never mentioned Gemma in any of his poems. He refers to other Donati relations, notably Forese and Piccarda, in his Divine Comedy. The exact date of his marriage is not known; the only certain information is that, before his exile in 1301, he had fathered three children with Gemma (Pietro, Jacopo and Antonia). [20] Wetherbee, Winthrop. "Dante Alighieri". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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In praeclara summorum: Encyclical of Pope Benedict XV on Dante". The Holy See. Retrieved 7 November 2014. Phelan, Jessica (4 September 2019). "Dante's last laugh: Why Italy's national poet isn't buried where you think he is". The Local Italy. Gombrich, E. H. (1979). "Giotto's Portrait of Dante?". The Burlington Magazine. 121 (917): 471–483 – via JSTOR. Zimmerman, Seth (2003). The Inferno of Dante Alighieri. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4697-2448-5 . Retrieved 8 March 2013.

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Main article: Paradiso (Dante) Paradiso, Canto III: Dante and Beatrice speak to Piccarda and Constance of Sicily, in a fresco by Philipp Veit. Allegorically, the Purgatorio represents the Christian life. Christian souls arrive escorted by an angel, singing In exitu Israel de Aegypto. In his Letter to Cangrande, Dante explains that this reference to Israel leaving Egypt refers both to the redemption of Christ and to "the conversion of the soul from the sorrow and misery of sin to the state of grace." [35] Appropriately, therefore, it is Easter Sunday when Dante and Virgil arrive. De vulgari Eloquentia". Dante online. Archived from the original on 27 September 2008 . Retrieved 2 September 2008. Christopher Kleinhenz, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-415-93930-5, p.360.

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Raffa, Guy P. (2020). Dante's Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press. ISBN 978-0-674-98083-9. Santagata, Marco (2012). Dante: Il romanzo della sua vita. Milan: Mondadori. p.21. ISBN 978-88-04-62026-6. The Divine Comedy is also a product of Scholasticism, especially as expressed by St. Thomas Aquinas. [60] [61] This influence is most pronounced in the Paradiso, where the text's portrayals of God, the beatific vision, and substantial forms all align with scholastic doctrine. [62] It is also in the Paradiso that Aquinas and fellow scholastic St. Bonaventure appear as characters, introducing Dante to all of Heaven's wisest souls. Despite all this, there are issues on which Dante diverges from the scholastic doctrine, such as in his unbridled praise for poetry. [63] Latham, Charles S.; Carpenter, George R. (1891). A Translation of Dante’s Eleven Letters. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. pp. 269–282. Dante claimed that his family descended from the ancient Romans ( Inferno, XV, 76), but the earliest relative he could mention by name was Cacciaguida degli Elisei ( Paradiso, XV, 135), born no earlier than about 1100. Dante's father, Alighiero di Bellincione, [20] was a White Guelph who suffered no reprisals after the Ghibellines won the Battle of Montaperti in the middle of the 13thcentury. This suggests that Alighiero or his family may have enjoyed some protective prestige and status, although some suggest that the politically inactive Alighiero was of such low standing that he was not considered worth exiling. [21]Israely, Jeff (31 July 2008). "A City's Infernal Dante Dispute". Time. ISSN 0040-781X . Retrieved 25 September 2018. Nilsen, Alleen Pace; Don L.F. Nilsen (2007). Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature. Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature. Vol.27. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p.133. ISBN 978-0-8108-6685-0. Barolini, Teodolinda (ed.). Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'. University of Toronto Press, 2014. Dante Dartmouth Project: Full text of more than 70 Italian, Latin, and English commentaries on the Commedia, ranging in date from 1322 ( Iacopo Alighieri) to the 2000s (Robert Hollander) Alighieri, Dante (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri. Vol.6 (Illustrateded.). Delphi Classics. ISBN 978-1-909496-19-4.

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Murray, Charles A. (2003). Human accomplishment: the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (1sted.). New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-019247-1. OCLC 52047270. Moore, Malcolm (17 June 2008). "Dante's infernal crimes forgiven". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008 . Retrieved 18 June 2008. In the distance, Dante perceives high towers that resemble fiery red mosques. Virgil informs him that they are approaching the City of Dis. Dis, itself surrounded by the Stygian marsh, contains Lower Hell within its walls. [59] Dis is one of the names of Pluto, the classical king of the underworld, in addition to being the name of the realm. The walls of Dis are guarded by fallen angels. Virgil is unable to convince them to let Dante and him enter.Arthur John Butler (1911). " Dante". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 7. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp.810–817.