FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Christmas eve-New Year’s day
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40 days of Lent
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Summer vacation
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Good Friday-Easter morning
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Detailed explanation-1: -This new year, 2020, marks the 700th anniversary of the completion of Dante Alighieri’s world-renowed literary masterpiece, “The Divine Comedy.” Dante completed “The Divine Comedy, ” the pre-eminent work in Italian literature in 1320 (he began the poem in 1308), a year prior to his death in 1321.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Divine Comedy ends with Dante trying to understand how the circles fit together, and how the humanity of Christ relates to the divinity of the Son but, as Dante puts it, “that was not a flight for my wings".
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem begins on the night of Maundy Thursday on March 24 (or April 7), 1300, shortly before the dawn of Good Friday.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the age of thirty-five, on the night of Good Friday in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark wood and full of fear. He sees a sun-drenched mountain in the distance, and he tries to climb it, but three beasts, a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf, stand in his way.