What was the contemporary reaction to Dante's Divine Comedy?
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Dante wrote Divine Comedy because he had "little" (more) to lose. Put another way, "Divine Comedy" was written in revenge for wounds already inflcited.
The reason was that he was exiled from his native Florence on the pain of death, between 1302 and 1321. He considered this exile a form of death.
Dante responded by siding publicly with Florence's worst enemies (the enemy of my enemy is my friend). When these "allies" failed to satisfy Dante, he "did the job" himself by writing Divine Comedy to call down the curses of Hell on his enemies, a few years before his death
Of course the work was highly controversial. Fortunately for him, Italy was in enough of a state of disunity so that there were places where he could live without being killed by his (numerous) enemies.
The work brought him more fame (and did more damage to his enemies) than his (military) allies ever did. In terms of its later impact on society, it was easily the equivalent of winning a major battle. It was the "bullet" that found its mark (and did a lot of "collateral" damage).
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