The Dantean pilgrimage

from desire, in freedom, towards love

Abstract

Dante Alighieri, "the great poet, prophet of hope, witness of infinite thirst" (Pope Francis) invites us to immerse ourselves in his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, in the depths of man, on a journey that leads through the lights and shadows that both he and we, today, experience on this path of life.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita. […] Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate. These verses refer us to the pilgrim who forges his life in each step and in action he wishes, chooses, suffers, loves. It is in the existential dynamic where ontologically, as a source, the source of being, the drama of freedom in which we are all immersed is manifested. Dante is the subject of that drama and makes us part of it. In the central songs of Purgatorio, XVI, XVII and XVIII, the poet sings the dynamism of freedom, responsibility, good and evil in dance and interdisciplinary dialogue, but above all existential.