As the mimetic representation of the Pilgrim's journey from Hell to Paradise, the entire Comedy may be seen as a procession, during which Dante also observes an assortment of processions, which because of their more formalized nature, have specific meaning for his journey. References to movement-both linear and circular-in the poem are generally filled with significance.

In Movement and Meaning in the Divine Comedy, Kleinhenz argues that the analysis of movement and its correlative procession in the Divine Comedy is fundamental to an understanding of how Dante generates meaning in his poetic text. This series offers public lectures which have been given by distinguished medieval and Renaissance scholars on topics and figures representative of these two important historical, religious, and intellectual periods. In 1316, Dante dedicated to Cangrande della Scala the first canto of the Paradiso, on which he worked up to the final years of his life.Christopher Kleinhenz's Movement and Meaning in the Divine Comedy: Toward an Understanding of Dante's Processional Poetics is the fourteenth in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. Some historical references in the first canticle suggest that the Inferno was probably written by the end of 1309, while other historical information in the second canticle indicates that the Purgatorio was finished between 13. Of the two dates now considered most probable, 13-1307, this latter seems most convincing, given that between 13 Dante was busy writing two other works ( De vulgari eloquentia and Il Convivio), which he interrupted when the demanding work on the Divine Comedy began. Certainly we should reject the hypotheses that a) Dante began writing the poem in honor of Beatrice before he went into exile and then finished it, after his sentence, starting in 1306, and b) that the Divine Comedy was begun after the death of Henry VII in 1313. It has not yet been possible to establish precisely the year when Dante began writing the Divine Comedy, thus we have to rely on what we know about his life and on elements internal to the work.

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