Trupul uman și corpul simbolic al lumii în Divina Comedie
The Human Body and the Symbolic Body of the World in The Divine Comedy

Summary/Abstract: Throughout this article, we will use the Tree of Life from Kabbalah to study certain symbolic aspects of the microcosmic and of the macrocosmic representations of corporeality. Thus, we hope to disclose an exciting perspective of reading some passages of The Divine Comedy, as well as a series of nuances of the medieval imaginary. After all, the interpretation and the understanding of the Sephirotic Tree involves the deciphering of the basic formula of existence, because it represents a synthetic and symbolic image of the organizing principle of creation. Along the symbolic analysis of the realms from the famous poem, a strong resemblance will be noticed between the universe presented by Dante and the Tree of Life from Kabbalah. Given that the representation of the sephiroth is particularly suggestive in Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece (starting with the circles of Hell, following with the Purgatory, the nine Heavens and the Empyrean), one of the conjectures of this study is that The Divine Comedy manages to transpose into allegorical verses many principles correlated withan “unwritten Kabbalah”.

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