Later, Dante perceives Beatrice in the church, and in order to conceal what the woman is causing his excitement, he pretends to be courting another lady, then third, so that his conduct raises the reproaches of the others. Beatrice is offended by what happened and gives him the impression that he does not approve of his act by not responding to his greeting. Not long after that, a friend takes the poet to a wedding. There, Dante meets Beatrice, who, having noticed his embarrassment, entertains his girlfriends with his awkwardness. He, mad with grief, leaves the wedding and, after shedding a lot of tears, decides not to seek an opportunity to meet his beloved because he does not stand the sight of her. The bliss he has felt so far from Beatrice's greeting, in the praise that he dedicates to her.

"Dante's Dream" by Dante Rossetti, 1871 image source

Then he begins to write his famous "Women Who Have a Feeling of Love" and creates several sonnets that are now regarded as masterpieces. In them he analyzes in detail all the perfections his beloved possesses and their impact upon those who make his eyes on it. Social life and its poetic vision remain with Dante subordinate to theology. Concentrated expression of contradictions in the subjectively significant world of Dante is the image of Beatrice, which appears in the poet's life and vision as a real human individual and sterilized in the theologian Dante's thinking as a symbol of theology, divine science, turned into a supernatural being. In Dante's biography or in the self-construction of the social world of Dante, the problem of Beatrice is painful and thus symptomatically located at the border between the immanent and the transcendent. The first researcher, who draws attention to "Prose in the New Life," in which the story of every poem is set out, is Jacob Burkhart. Burkhart said that she is as wonderful as the poems themselves and forms a harmonious entity with them, passionate excitement. Beyond the soul, the poet finds out all the shades of her bliss and her suffering, and then pours out all this with a strong force of will in the strictest artistic form. Do we read these sonnets and cantons carefully, and between these and the wonderful excerpts from the diary of his youth, it seems to us that all the poets have been avoiding themselves all the time, only he first became aware of himself ... This is subjective lyric with completely objective truth and greatness; most of it is so craftily crafted that all peoples and ages can absorb it and feel it ... only through these youth poems, Dante would have been a borderstone between the Middle Ages and the New Age. Here the spirit and the soul make a sudden step to penetrate into its innermost being.

At the beginning of the collection of love novels, Dante describes his first meeting with the one who will become a full mistress of his love: "She appeared before me at the beginning of my ninth year, I saw it at the end of my ninth year. She appeared dressed in the most noble, modest and graceful, red color, with adornments and girdles as she did to her youthful age. In this moment - I tell you the truth - the spirit of life, inhabiting the innermost depths of our heart, was so violent in me that I felt its weakest ripples. He uttered the following words: "Here is the God who is stronger than me who has dominion over me!" At that moment, the spirit of my soul inhabiting in my mind, where all the spirits of the senses impress, turned to the spirit of vision by saying the following words: "Here is your bliss." Then the spirit of nature, dwelling in that area where digestion is taking place in us, began to tear and spoke quietly: "Oh , the unfortunate self, I will encounter obstacles in my life today! "I tell you that from that moment I have established my authority over my soul and she soon succumbed to it ... " In his monograph dedicated to medieval poetry in Western Europe, Professor Hadjikosev offers a translation of a sonnet from Dante, which portrays the concept of love that is typical of the "Sweet New Style" circle, according to which this intimate experience improves inevitably its possessions. Dante claims that his work is divided into two parts: the first is about love in the potenzia, i. in its essence and its capabilities, and in the second, starting with the termites, about love in action (in atto). He has long been impressed by the dentists that in the first teritory the poet does not speak of the beauty of his beloved, but uses the expression "beauty appears" ...

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