Dante Alighieri ‘Paradise’.

Original painting by Gianni Russomando. Ref.: 0_5526509_125008.jpg

“… so when, at strain or risk ceasing,

the rows, till then beaten into water,

all the people stop at the whistle of their chief.”

With disarming sobriety, to Dante is offered a well known affection but so often neglected, when even kept silent : as otherwise can we say about satisfaction ? Our Poet realized that affection – here we are in the last Chapters of ‘Comedy’ – but soonest then removed just what it made possible : the sea, then favourable to man, was making their own part offering to eachone an unpredictable surplus, not to be neglected indeed and that the driver was pointing at the end. But Dante Alighieri – who was not at all a sea man – then wants translating that behaviour, he just observed at a distance, and here he was : also if, even in a baby and notwithstanding he or she has be born finally, satisfaction comes surely into memory and without any risk to be forgotten – rather you can get it wherever and whenever – can you deny that ? In his ‘Paradise’ Dante comes to touch the algorithm – prescription perfectly able to be generalized - but not including ‘satisfaction’.

Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio June 28, 2021