Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dante's Attitude Toward the Church and the Clergy of His Times
Nothing was further from Dante's mind than to teach heresy. An illuminating insight into his characteristic attitude toward the doctrine of the Church is furnished by an episode following an interview with Piccarda, in the Heaven of the M3211 who leaves the poet entangled in two ti�s' Why should nuns, forcibly torn from their convents for marriage, receive from Divine Justice a lesser degree of reward than would have been theirs if they had persevered in their vows? And if the Elect are found in the different planets, does that imaginary fact confirm the theory of Plato who held that the souls, in order to inform human bodies, come from the planets con natural with them and return thereto?
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