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Islam and the Divine comedy

Note 421 — PART II THE DIVINE COMEDY COMPARED WITH OTHER MOSLEM LEGENDS ON THE AFTER-LIFE (continued 2)

Harold Sunderland translation

Had Vossler known of Ibn Arabi’s plans, he would certainly not have sought in the symmetry of Dante’s three realms a symbolical application of the Ptolemaic system to purgatory and hell. Vossler, after lengthy explanations and subtle interpretations of this theory, exclaims (I, 252):—

“Chi può decidere ove graviti il centro di tali simboli, se nella poesia o nella scienza?” ... “Noi non conosciamo nella letteratura mondiale alcun altro laboro artistico, che sia così profondamente penetrato di filosofia.”

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