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Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person: The Theological Aesthetics of the Divine Comedy in 2026

"Dante Alighieri’s Commedia stands as an enduring monument to theological anthropology, synthesizing medieval scholastic philosophy with visionary poetics. In literary and philosophical scholarship, renewed attention focuses on how Dante articulates the relationship between divine grace, human volition, and personal form. Far from presenting humanity as a broken vessel crushed beneath arbitrary decree, Dante frames justice and mercy (misericordia) as complementary expressions of divine love (l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle). Through this lens, the beauty of the human person emerges not as an ephemeral physical attribute, but as an ont..."

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