Venturing into a Virtual Reality

The Italian Renaissance attracts all people with its mystery. Dante played a very important

role in the golden age of Florence with his profound implications of his works. More interestingly,

people never suppress their curiosity about the question that what happened in Florence that forced

Dante to create meaning in allegory. Facing the jungle of factions, Dante, as a result of changed

conditions and contacts in the society, saw the root cause of the stalled Florence as the absence of

peace. Learning from war, religion and unstable regimes, he created a historical allegory about a

virtual reality so to treat his government with sarcasm and seek a way to tell the public how to be

better off. Let me illustrate how Dante used history and culture to create a poetic allegory in the

following.

First of all, in Purgatorio Canto V, Dante wrote allegorically about Buonconte da Montefeltro.

Learning from Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence, as the main leader of Ghibelline forces

in Tuscany, Buonconte fought Florentine guelphs at Campaldino. Dante is thought to have

fought in that battle. Dante wrote that " And I to him: 'What force or chance/took you so far from

Campaldino/that your burial-place was never found?" Dante would like to answer the tricky

question of why people cannot find Buonconte's corpse. He gave us a dramatic answer following:

Buonconte wounded in the throat, fled the plain and arrived at the bank of the river, where he died

with Mary's name. Everyone is born from Eve and died with Mary. Dante illustrated it by his poem

that "the holy men say that, just as sickness was born from that most prideful one, that is, Eve, just

so its cure springs from that most humble one, that is, Mary." I...

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advantage of Charles to establish itself as a fixture. Dante used poetic allegory to clear the changed

power of Florence. He used a proper metaphor to illustrate a number of interests of each faction and

explore the real truth of the event.

All in all, the most precious thing is Dante observed the world from his own aspect

which is purely and starkly because of his experiences. He wrote poetic allegory from his specific

perspective to illustrate how the world advanced even the world is a never-ending evil. He collected

the historical events, mixed his good will, explored truth behind the events, and created a peaceful

and just world with violent words that strongly contrast with the real world. As a result, his allegory

can help people to seek the peace of the world and distinguish between right and wrong.