He later has a divine vision, in which a deity gives Dante direct guidance on how to compose love poetry, and Dante wonderfully describes this vision and his lesson in the book.Īs his tale of love and loss progresses, he reflects on how to turn worldly love into poems that can honor love itself. This question of whether his love was pure, or whether it was laden with lust, led Dante to begin looking more deeply into the nature of love poetry, and how such poetry could be used to respectfully honor love. Dante and Beatrice, Carl Wilhelm Friederich Oesterly (1805–1891)ĭante fell deeply in love with a woman named Beatrice, and he wrote numerous poems to express his love for her, which he collected years later in his book Vita Nuova ( New Life) along with some wonderful passages explaining his thoughts on composing each poem.Īmid Dante’s state of longing for Beatrice, whom for most of the book he admires from afar and collapses with butterflies in his stomach each time he sees, he is questioned on the nature of his love by a group of girls close to her.
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