About Dante and his "Divine comedy" / part 6/
Dante and Vergilius find themselves in front of the door of hell. As he passes through the door, Dante hears from the" dark starless "sighs, weeping and screaming. Vergilius explains to him the fate of the soulless, without glory and without reproach lived in the world: He does not want paradise with them to be spotted, and hell does not want them in their own heart, from "angelic cunning". of the angels who, in the rebellion of Lucifer, did not stand on his side, but did not support God. These suckers are forced to run after a flag, hunched on their heels by hornets and axes. They are both Hell and Heaven closed because they are despised both by the forces of Evil and by the forces of the Good. Dante stares at them for a moment, but quickly passes them.
Shortly thereafter, the two strangers find themselves on the "sad coast" of Aheron, where "souls naked with feeble legs" swear by "God, their loved ones, the family of their birth, the hour they were born." There, the Charon demon with an eye-glow / sign gives and gathers the ragged, / with the rake struck, which lags behind. " From here it goes into the real Hell. Charon warns Dante that, as a living man, he can not enter these limits, but Vergilius explains to him that such is the will of God, and the legendary boatman executes the commandment. New crowds of sinners are gathering on the coast, who, as they can not escape their destiny, expect to be transported through Aheron. At the end of the song, Dante first fell into disrepair. According to the Scripture, it is created immediately after the creation of the Heaven, Earth and the Angels of the Holy Trinity - the God-Father / the power of heaven /as a place for punishment of Lucifer. Dante quickly passed the souls that were alive during their lifetime. Obviously, the Italian poet does not accept those who, in their lives, stick to the moderation and plunge into compromise. As he firmly asserts his political commitments, he expects others to follow their civilian positions incessantly. Dante seems to be more inclined to comprehend these sinners who have committed a defect, but have not remained indecisive and neat. Dante often borrows realities from classical mythology (Aheron) and introduces them into the geography of Christian Hell. Although in theory the ancient Greeks and Romans denied the one God Gentiles, their wisdom and culture enjoyed special tribute during the Renaissance era in Italy. Dante's reckoning of the great ancestors of Antiquity, which he placed in Limba / the prelate of Hell, was introduced into the reasonable limits prescribed by early Christianity in the Early Middle Ages.
After passing through the hell river Aheron, the two poets enter Limbas, where "unbaptized souls" are: "Deprived of the doctrine of Christ," explains the Master, "they did not believe in the true God: I am of this generation. , but only severely sigh. This is the residence of the children who have died without baptism and all those who worship the sciences and the arts but have not been introduced into the true religion. Within the limits of the first circle (Limba / Vergilius) is enveloped by the pangs of death, as he finds himself among his distinguished teachers and contemporaries of pagan antiquity. In a "noble castle ...", behind seven circles of a high wall, the poets managed to see "righteous wise men with a keen gaze of reverence" who "spoke but in a voice humble and quiet" - Anaxagor and Empedocles, Democritus, Socrates with Plato, Ptolemy, Galen and Avicenna and others. Dante and Vergilius come to "four, sad and no joy": they are the "godly poet" Homer, the satire "Horatius", along with the "great" Ovid and Lucian. Dante's leader admits: "They connect me with the great title, which their shouting voice calls me out of respect." Dante himself is touched by the silent recognition of his remarkable predecessors: "They were in their circle habitually and nodded Ahead; and my chief smiled; was a great honor in their counsel, among the most glorified in the world, to be accepted as a sixth member. "
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