Beatrice In Dante Chapter 19

Dante’s representation of his love for Beatrice becomes further engulfed within the concept of love itself. The cliche of “the idea of love”, is one Dante finds himself struggling within and bursting with the emotion he must “ease [his] mind” by sharing with the other ladies who have the “knowledge of love” (XIX). Although there are 3 Canzones or Ballads within Vita Nova, the comparison of the climax of the relationship of love between Dante and Beatrice within the 1st Canzone in Chapter 19, juxtaposed to the final Canzone in Chapter 31 where Dante is mourning his Amor’s death. For the purpose of displaying the intensity and fixation Dante has around the concept of physical and emotional love, to view his dedication and passion we must view him after passed adolescence; also dissecting the canzone after her death to comprehend the devastation and grief within his heart, without needing the process of death but the result itself. As we know Dante states that Beatrice and he had once met at the age of 9, and again 9 years later, which is not seen merely as a coincidence, but fate

Dante goes further in depth to praising his Beatrice to state she is desired by all including the Heavens, and the component of divinity is brought in with a question that will haunt Dante for the remainder of the Vita Nuova and His Comedy “Dice di lei Amor: Cosa mortale come esser po si adorna e si pura?; This mortal thing, how can it be so pure and adorned?” (XIV). Lastly, his admiration reaches a pinnacle when he condemns that Beatrice is a creation like no other good, this definitely proclaims he truly believes she is as close to what one could compare to Ancient Greeks would believe in as