tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post4599963394098979227..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Commedia Meditations: Swept Away By SinDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-38501020249414478442007-03-05T02:53:00.000-05:002007-03-05T02:53:00.000-05:00Dante is doing something very important with the s...Dante is doing something very important with the story of Francesca and Paolo. Keep in mind that we get the courtly love tradition out of the 12th Century, and that many of the stories in this tradition are about adulterous (or otherwise unattainable) love. The story of King Arthur, Guinivere and Lancelot is a good example of a story in the courtly love tradition, and it is no accident that Dante uses it. Dante is making a judgment about courtly love stories: if you read them as Francesca and Paolo did, you will imitate them and fall into sin. The reader will have heard of Abelard and Heloise and will also be thinking of how they fell in lust over their books. <BR/><BR/>But Dante is also taking the courtly love tradition and re-Christianizing it. Who is one of the main characters of the Divine Comedy? Beatrice, unattainable because she is dead, she is the lady who stands for illuminating grace - sent by Mary. He is taking the archetypes of the courtly love tradition and using them in a spiritual way rather than in a purely sexual way. He's taking the courtly love tradition and turning it on its ear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-21455819893515094782007-03-01T09:03:00.000-05:002007-03-01T09:03:00.000-05:00Me three!Me three!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-42267088714734152492007-02-28T22:31:00.000-05:002007-02-28T22:31:00.000-05:00Me, too.Me, too.Pro Ecclesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03814831624547392519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-29688685666715529242007-02-28T16:42:00.000-05:002007-02-28T16:42:00.000-05:00Thank you for doing this. I am getting alot out o...Thank you for doing this. I am getting alot out of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com