On the concept of poetic language in Dante’s “Comedy”

The article dedicates to the philosophy of Dante’s poetic language in his “Comedy”. The study is based on the 52-54 verses of the XXIV Canto of “Purgatorio”. Its objective is to analyze the terzina comparing it to the treatise “De vulgari eloquentia” and to eventual scriptural and theological sources of the Poet. The analysis shows that in the terzina as well as in the treatise the doctrine of human’s creation by the Holy Spirit - which is closely connected, for Dante, with the topic of creation of language - plays a very important role. However, while the treatise talks about a human language, and the communication between Adam and God is mediated by the air, in the poem God-Love speaks to the poet secretly, at heart. Thus, Dante’s poem is to become an answer to this love. The language of his poetry holds in itself a sign of Creator and leads a reader to the contemplation of divine Love.