मर्ढेकरांच्या दान्ते यांच्या प्रेमाचे कदाचित आणखी एक कारण...Dante Alighieri 700th Death Anniversary

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Today September 14 2021 is 700th death anniversary of Dante Alighieri. 

 बा सी मर्ढेकर:

"गेलों विदूषक जरी ठरूनी सुहास,

दान्ते-नि-शेक्सपिअर-संगत आसपास 

कोठें तरी स्वमरणोत्तर भाग्यकालीं ---!

हाही विचार न कमी मज शांतिदायी."

(१५, पृष्ठ १५, मर्ढेकरांची कविता)

Peter Hainsworth, TLS, February 19 2021: "...Apart from a dip in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Divine Comedy has continued to be seen as one of the greatest literary works ever written, to be compared, in the view of T. S. Eliot, only with the plays of Shakespeare. Modern English has been particularly receptive, with twenty-five complete translations appearing in the past fifty years alone, not to mention many other partial ones..."

मर्ढेकरांना इटालियन येत होते, आणि Dante हा तर त्या भाषेचा ज्ञानेश्वर. पण त्याशिवाय मर्ढेकरांना दान्ते बद्दल प्रेम वाटायचे आणखी कारण होते काय?

कदाचित दोघांवर झालेले खटले हे कारण असू शकते. 

JacobMuñoz, smithsonianmag.com, February 5, 2021:

 "... Along with his charges of corruption, Dante was fined 5,000 florins, banished from Florence for two years and barred from seeking office in the city for the rest of his life. (The death sentence followed his failure to present himself to authorities on these charges.) Though he received permission to return to Florence in 1315, the poet declined, as doing so would have required him to admit his guilt and pay a fine. This refusal led to a second death sentence, which changed his punishment from being burned at the stake to being beheaded and included the executions of his sons Pietro and Jacopo, according to Lapham’s Quarterly...."

  “Inferno”, Canto XVIII, by Sandro Botticelli, 1480s

 

 This 1465 fresco by Domenico di Michelino depicts Dante, holding a copy of The Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to hell.