Divine Liturgy

ABSTRACT Petro Marko is an outstanding personality of modern Albanian literature, a writer of European and global scale. He is a remarkable poetry and prose writer, publicist and translator as well as a warrior in the International Brigades of the Spainish Civil War. One of his most popular works is the children’s novel “The Pirates’ Cave”. The work recounts imaginary events, which the author connects with some aspects of reality and with his hometown events. In the center of the plot, there are…

Often, especially in the most modern and current times, love is regarded as a secondary objective that occurs without special heed in life. However, in a religious context, love can be interpreted as an entity that should be necessarily deliberate. For example, in Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio– an exploration of the purgatory preceding heaven, or ‘Paradiso’– Dante aligns the evolution of sin with how or towards what love is directed. Love is more complicated in Dante’s framework than most would…

The Bhagavad-Gita and The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno provide a broad perspective of human nature as a whole due to the origins of these works being from Eastern and Western civilizations which together encapsulates the ideals of the greater part of the human race. While they have some differing morals and beliefs of the spiritual world, both writings’ conception of suffering seems to have a similar ideological base. The texts understand suffering as a cyclical, repetitive and sometimes…

Negative Anger Why you will be punished by your anger? "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned" (Buddha, para 1). This quote illustrates that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing; but, it can destroy everything. Sometimes anger can be transformed to a hurtful tool that can hurt mostly its owner than others. It is a normal feeling everybody can undergo through it. But, the problem is how to manage…

literally translates to counter-punishment, Dante unpacks the punishment that sinners undergo. At the start of canto III, an inscription above the gates of hell reads “Justice moved my high maker, in power divine, wisdom supreme, love primal” (Canto III, 4-6). The interpretation is that God, the divine, created Hell on the principles of justice and primal love. Originally, this does not sit well with Dante, he battles with the justification of the contrapasso and lacks the understanding of how…

Death is a painful lash of a whip to remind us of the deathless state which is man’s destiny. Through a series of interplay of paradoxes the truth is revealed to man. The Eternal Night in which Savitri finds herself is no more than the shadow of the Eternal Day. Night is compared to the dark mother. Though man feels himself engrossed in night, man has come to this dark mother from a supernal Light, and by that Light man lives and ultimately goes to his final destination. Naturally it is that the…

http://graphviz.org/. This software has a quite simple description language; moreover, we can prepare graphs with several architectures, for instance with the “circo” layout, to produce a circular plot. Graphviz was used in the analysis of Dante’s Divine Comedy, to display the networks of characters. (16) For machine-readable texts several mathematical models exist, useful to study the style of literary works, for instance, by the frequency of word counts, vocabulary items, or…

“Louder than sirens, louder than bells, sweeter than heaven, and hotter than hell.” Florence Welch belts out in a beautifully deep voice. In an instant, she’s rendered the ideals of both Heaven and Hell as insignificant, trivial delusions. She’s singing about the way she feels when she’s in love. This human emotion she’s experiencing is so much more remarkable than anything to be experienced in the afterlife. If love is sweeter than heaven, and hotter than hell, then what is there to look…

Dante’s Inferno was one of 3 works that was compiled into his major work the Divine Comedy. He lived around the 1200-1300s and discussed some of the Florentine Politics he either witnessed or participated in including his exile from Florence. This can be found in the 6th Chapter of Inferno when Dante is in the 3rd Circle of Hell. In the book it referred to the spring of 1300, which is the fictional date of Dante’s journey. Dante being born in 1265 is what people at the time call the “halfway…

The punishment, for each Circle of Dante’s Hell, is connected to its corresponding sin. For example, in the 4th Circle, the Hoarders and Spendthrifts are punished by being forced to push stones into each other over and over. This punishment is fitting because the hoarders’ stones could represent all the materialistic things he or she hoarded and the spendthrifts’ stones could represent all the money he or she spent. The hoarders and the spendthrifts are opposite extremes and because of their…