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By Mary Alexandra Watt

Mary Watt proposes that the Divine Comedy employs a chain of strategically put textual cues to create a meta-textual constitution past Dante’s literal narrative. Dimly perceptible first and foremost, the constitution turns into ever extra knowable because the protagonist reaches his final goal. As the pilgrim wends his means during the 3 geographical regions of the afterlife, references to medieval maps and to medieval cruciform church buildings, including photographs of crusading and pilgrimage, eventually display the form of this constitution because the reader turns into conscious that Dante’s trip strains the determine of a cross.  
 
Watt explores the textual cues, codes, and different options that Dante employs to find how and why he inspires the form of a cross. She considers the visible arts and medieval cartographic and architectural conventions as well as conventional texts as strength assets for the literal narrative of the Comedy. While identical to the go in the Comedy has been usually famous, Watt ways the statement and the poem in holistic model, arguing that this snapshot is a clue to the better underlying constitution that offers shape and for that reason desiring to the complete work.
 

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The episode serves rather to highlight the petty and divisive nature of the Florentine squabbles and distinguish them from the more worthy struggle against the infidel in the Holy Land, continuing the innuendo of Inferno 7. The inhabitants of the cemetery of Dis, in their attention to local matters and their abandonment of the true fight, are antipilgrims but, more specifically, they are anticrusaders. The specific mention of two other sinners, Ottaviano degli Ubaldini and Frederick II, emphasizes Dante’s condemnation of those who did not fight to recover Jerusalem.

Frederick’s first language was Arabic. ) His eventual crusade to the Holy Land together with his Muslim troops merely reinforced this perception, especially as he declined to battle the Muslim defenders for Jerusalem and instead negotiated with al-Malik al-Kamil, sultan of Leaving Jerusalem: The Journey into Exile 25 Egypt, for possession of the city. 18 Moreover, rather than stay and govern Jerusalem following the conclusion of the treaty, Frederick was crowned king of Jerusalem,19 then promptly returned to Europe.

There Beatrice will effect yet another reiteration of the same process that characterizes the entire canticle. In her insistence that Dante turn toward her and away from the backward glance that marks Virgil’s departure,7 Beatrice encapsulates the entire purgative process and defines its relationship to the infernal journey. 8 More specifically, the climbing aspect of his trek absorbs the allegorical significance afforded the numerous climbs that formed an unavoidable feature of most of the major pilgrimages of the Middle Ages.

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