Divina comedia

The Divine Comedy is not merely a story with a beginning, middle, and end. It is, first and foremost, an encrypted text in which the reader must decipher the countless pearls scattered throughout, both hidden and obvious. Written in the language of gold, or of birds, it is therefore essential to understand it through ancient and traditional hermeneutics, for this is what Dante employed from beginning to end. Dante claims that his work is a sacred poem. Indeed, it is a hymn to the true new life, attained by the lady Beatrice and the knight Dante, indissolubly united forever. The author of the Divine Comedy was a prominent member of the Fedeli d'Amore, an initiatory organization with Pythagorean roots and close ties to the Occitan poetic-chivalric movement of fin'amor and trobar clus. His connections to the Knights Templar are also well-documented.