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Literature is Inspired by Religion in the Middle Ages (In Literature…
Literature is Inspired by Religion in the Middle Ages
Knowledge is in the Bibble
Dante in the Comedy tells that Ulysses shipwrecks for having overcome the Columns of Hercules, the limit of human knowledge, challenging God
In Literature
First Italian literary document
Canticle of the Creatures by Saint Francis of Assisi
Born into a rich middle class family, renounces to his property and founds a religious order
Saint Francis praises all the Creation and celebrates religious virtues
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
It Tells about Dante's Cathartic Journey Through the Three Reigns of the Afterlife
Purgatory
It's a mountain and it is encircled by 7 Cornices where the souls expiate their sins.
Hell
The Damned undergo the law of Retaliation
Their punishment is the same or the opposite to the guilt of their life
It's divided into 9 Circles and it has the shape of a funnel
Heaven
It consists of 9 Skies and the Empireo, where there are the blessed and where Dante can contemplate God
Dante is inspired by Geocentric model of the Universe
Earth as the center of the Universe
