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The similarity between Dante's eternal, obsessive love for Beatrice and the imaginary meeting in the world beyond death (in the third part of the Divine Comedy "Paradise"), as in the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, is obvious.
I sculpted Dante metamorphosed into Orpheus, with the lyre and looking back and I sculpted Beatrice with her body shape in the negative because it's just an illusion, fixed on Dante's emotional pain.
The strange meeting is dominated by strong, vibrant emotions.
Dante explicitly names Orpheus only once in the Divine Comedy, when he saw him among the intellectuals. However, the function of the figure of Orpheus in the Divine Comedy, similar to his general function in literature, is that of a chimera. The shadow of Orpheus that dwells.
The medieval habit of extracting a moral lesson from every fact or work of art gave Dante a multitude of options for his own interpretation of the Orpheus myth.

Dante and Beatrice - a Florentine Orpheus

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