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Published in this Easter season, on the feast of the Annunciation (March 25), Pope Francis's Apostolic Letter, "Splendour of Light Eternal" (Candor Lucis aeternae) is a remarkable document, an exhortation to read, study, and teach Dante's Divine Comedy, and as Pope Francis writes, to become Dante's "companions on the journey."
The Letter reviews preceding papal letters on Dante (by Benedict XV, Saint John Paul II, Paul VI and Benedict XVI), and incisively discusses Dante's life and his poem. It contains many insights; for example, particularly noteworthy are the sections on human desire, on freedom, on the "three women of the Comedy," as is the final invitation to consider how Dante's poem "raises provocative questions for our own time."
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