Chasing Beatrice

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If Dante had left a journal what would it say about how he came to write his masterpiece The ‎Divine Comedy? What if he actually took a journey into a Hell-on-Earth and then continued ‎upwards towards the stars? If his great love Beatrice had not died young after all could he find ‎her? If so was there still time for them?‎</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Beginning with an aggrieved father's request to repair his daughter's reputation-which meant it ‎was time to write again- at the pace of a theme park ride the reader and Dante set out across the ‎horizon of history from pagan times up through the early 1300s on an Easter Weekend pilgrimage ‎in 1302. Seeking the woman he loves the poet first meets a cast of characters with immutable ‎assignments in the city of Dis. Surviving this frightening place with his friend da Forli he ‎continues his quest buoyed by tales of a nunnery where a beautiful woman now lives. Sightings ‎of a woman who might be his Beatrice are described not by whispery souls but by sinners seeking ‎to accomplish a heavenly repose. The poet sees their dream and their redemptive strivings as ‎being like his own. Whether in references to the old and new testaments as taught by the ‎Catholic Church or in reprises of Roman history or in recollections of Medieval Italy embroiled ‎in the factional enmity of families and political parties always in the background is a human love ‎story. Let the reader participate in this imagination and join Dante in</span><em style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Chasing Beatrice. ‎ </em></p><p></p>