Libro y profecía: la Commedia dantesca como utopía

Abstract

Poetry is also future. This is especially valid in The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, where the Italian poet, from the first song, will put in the mouth of his Guide, poet, teacher and father, Virgilio, a prophecy, consolation before the presence of the evil, allegorized into three beasts that close Dante's Anabasis: “infin che 'l Veltro / verrà, che la farà die con doglia” (Inferno, I, vv. 101-102). The expected figure, the mastiff (Veltro), who will defeat the She-wolf (who is Greed, but is also Rome) refers to the Millenarianism typical of Revelation, but also to the ambiguities of politics. This double reading, both sacred and secular, has given rise to very varied and, at times, unusual theories. However, there is one of them where the sacred and the secular converge. A Utopia where a messiah will bring the end of evil in human actions. In our text, we intend to investigate the essence of this utopia.