DANTE Alighieri

DANTE Alighieri
(1265-1321)
   Italian poet. His La divina commedia (c1304-21 in manuscript; many translations as The Divine Comedy) is an epic poem of 100 cantos in 3 books, each of 33 cantos, with an introduction; the books are Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. It has profoundly affected not only the religious imagination but all subsequent allegorical creation of imaginary worlds in literature generally. For that reason it can (with hindsight) be said to be a work of PROTO SCIENCE FICTION (although it stands at the head of other traditions much older than the sciencefictional); indeed, it is sf in the strict sense, albeit the science is medieval. Its subject is cosmological (COSMOLOGY) - it offers us in its worlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven (and Earth, Sun and stars) a picture of the way the Universe is structured. The obvious objection to such a view is that the work is theological and philosophical in intent; this is so, but there was no distinction between science and RELIGION when Dante wrote, and he did so with the eye of a scientist, transcending the rational but not deserting it. The tradition that led to sf has The Divine Comedy as an ancestor.
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   See also: GODS AND DEMONS; ITALY; MUSIC.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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