Humanities Day 2012: On Reading Dante's Vita Nuova

[@wrybreadspread]

no comments? unconsionable! my attention was riveted; I too am obsessed with Dante; Prof Wray rocks

[@wrybreadspread]

50:30 the sonnet that Prof Wray quotes, Tanto Gentile, is customarily memorized by Italians, it says in a Wikipedia article

[@ludovicaditucci87]

wrybreadspread it is true - even in elementary school

[@deslivresoublies8105]

Wonderful! Congrats, great lecture.

[@wjmeegan]

Dante's work on La Vita Nuova is all about the perennial psyche's activities with Beatrice (unconscious mind), which is guided by God: i.e. LOVE. This work has nothing whatsoever to do with romantic love; though, that is traditionally thought to be La Vita Nuova's thesis. Throughout this entire book of poetry, the word LOVE is a direct reference to God (1 John 4:8). Beatrice is the unconscious mind on a spiritual level and that is why the book is called THE NEW LIFE; because, it steps away from the materialistic realm, which is considered evil. The La Divina Commedia, which is the work Dante Alighieri wrote immediately after writing La Vita Nuova, is a direct tribute to Beatrice. In 1994 I broke Dante Alighieri's La Divina Commedia Mathematical System www.slideshare.net/williamjohnmeegan/dante-alighieridante-alighieris-la-divina-commedia-mathematical-system; thus, this mathematical analysis will demonstrably demonstrate that Dante was all about writing about esotericism (the hidden esoteric science), which points to La Vita Nuova also being a product of esotericism. The problem that most people have in reading esoteric works is that they don't read the texts slowly and carefully. Rather than reading the texts for exactly what they are conveying most people include into the texts other people's interpretations and/or they add into the texts their own biases, prejudices and preconceived notion, which makes them the authors rather than Dante Alighieri.

[@rabbitrun777]

ts eliots essay on dante is something every dante fan should read

[@TravelStammer]

So beatrice is a mortal of whom he loved in the human world or a metaphor for love and god or both