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This chapter explores the status of the Comedy as a ‘political’ poem, in relation to Dante’s political context in the Italy of the early fourteenth century, his own political thought, and to the way in which the journey which the poem describes is construed as progressing from a wicked community, via a 'community under construction', to the perfect 'City of God' in Heaven. It argues that the notion of community – that is, of the way in which human beings live in relation to one another – is central to the Comedy's theology and poetics as well as to Dante's political thought. It examines the ways in which the three main political structures of Dante’s world – the city, and especially Dante’s own city of Florence, the Church and the Empire – are presented in the poem and contribute to the reader’s understanding of what constitutes ‘true’ citizenship, from both an earthly and an eschatological perspective.
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