Discover The Amazing Work Of DANTE ALIGHIERI! Italian Most Famous Poet!

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I have loved Dante and the Divine Comedy but unfortunately know little Italian but are starting to learn. I was interested in the symbolism you gave to the animals: lust, pride and greed. It makes sense. Thank you for your video. But is Virgil, Plato, Aristotle and Socrates still in Limbo in the inferno? I don't think so. I think they would have progressed to Heaven in the afterlife, after Jesus went and preached to the good souls in Hell after His crucifixion and opened for them, the gates of Heaven.

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You're very welcome! Well, as far as I can tell, I do agree with your point fo view: greek and latin poets in the matter of facts they did nothing in their mortal life to deserve the Limbo, nor Hell... however the Divine Comedy was not written from a strictly theological point of view, but to ignite the flame of the Renaissance: in Middle Ages there was the huge drive of considering mortal life only a test of suffering in order to earn access to Heaven... Dante instead wrote the Commedia with the main purpose to encourage humanity to seek happiness in mortal life. So, all the characters we can find in the Commedia serve the main narrative purpose that Dante gave them to carry.