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Divine Comedy: Dante Alighieri
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri remains today one of the pillars upon which the European literary tradition has been built. Originally titled simply Commedia, Dante's masterpiece was written at the end of his life and finished just before his death in 1321. Presented in the edition published by Les Heures Claires is Salvador Dali's interpretation of the wonderful and intense imagery that Dante formed through spinning a web of words both exciting and exhilarating.
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Passages in The Divine Comedy reflect Dante's political and social views. Generally, he believed in separation of church and state, with the papacy reigning supreme in spiritual matters and the temporal ruler (an emperor or a king) reigning supreme in material matters. As a Roman Catholic, Dante supported the views of his church and accepted its teachings on life after death. However, he did not blindly support the church's leaders. In fact, he places seven popes in Hell in The Divine Comedy.
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The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternate meanings. Dante's allegory... is more complex, and, in explaining how to read the poem (see the "Letter to Can Grande della Scala"), he outlines other levels of meaning besides the allegory (the historical, the moral, the literal, and the anagogical).
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Originally, the illustration of the Divine Comedy was planned as a commission by the Italian government for the Dante Anniversary. But at the last minute, the commission was cancelled. In the end, the project was realized by private publishers thanks to the initiative of Joseph Forêt.
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The Divine Comedy,by Dante and illustrated by Salvador Dali is considered by many to have been Salvador Dali's most incredible and notable work. Published 1960 - 1964 by Editions d'Art Les Hueres Claires, Paris France.
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Three great artists of the 20th century admired the poet Dante and his Divine Comedy: Ernst Fuchs, Arno Breker and Salvador Dalí. These three friends of "The Golden Triangle" are seen in this photograph in Dalí's home at Port Lligat in Spain in 1974.
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