01-Weird Lit Tales: Dante and the dreams

Podcast Cuentos Oscuros · Sep 17, 2024 · 1m

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Did you know it is believed that The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri, was inspired by a dream? At least, that's what literary critic Boismont thought. Additionally, a legend was circulating that after Dante's death in September 1321, the manuscript of The Divine Comedy was incomplete. The last thirteen cantos, corresponding to Paradise, were nowhere to be found. However, a few months later, his youngest son, Jacopo Alighieri, had a dream in which his father's radiant spirit pointed to a hiding spot in his room where the missing manuscripts were. At…