Simbolismos do além-túmulo: a política e o cristianismo no Paraíso da Visão de Túndalo e Divina Comédia (Séculos XIII-XV)

Abstract

The present work seeks to discuss the symbolisms of the Christian Paradise in the manuscript Túndalo's Vision and in the poem Divine Comedy. In order to analyze the two documents, we divided the debate on their functions into two, Christian moralization, with the ideal of salvation, sanctity and political functions, emphasizing the authors' inclination to the Church and the empire. The Vision of Túndalo is an imaginary journey, written by a monk named Marcus in 1149. The manuscript narrates the journey of Túndalo, a knight, to the beyond where, from his out-of-body experience, he ends up repenting of his sins and becoming an ideal model of a good Christian. The Divine Comedy was written during the first two decades of the 14th century by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) shortly after his exile from Florence. The poem tells the fictional journey of Dante to the Beyond, where he meets well-known figures from antiquity and his time. The temporality that we address in this work is from the 13th to the 15th centuries, where several transformations occur in the medieval period, our focus was on the Italian Peninsula and on the Kingdom of Portugal during that time.