Dante In The Mid-century's Culture Communications Between The East And The West

Dante is the most representative writer in the Middle Ages when in the interim of the Revival of Learning in Italy. And he is considered as an the symbolic person to the end of the Middle Ages and the introductory of the modern capitalism.The age which Dante lived in was a period of frequent communications between the East and the West. The friar of Christianity Order of Franciscans often went to east, and the Venetian businessman Marco Polo's travel to east arose the great echo in west, but we could seldom find the discussion about east which is the hot topic in Dante's works. The fact shows that his philosophic idea was influenced by the eastern cultures; his poesy producing also used for reference the eastern. In The Divine Comedy, Dante threw Mohammed who is the founder of the Islam into the hell which showed the repulsion and negation to the eastern heathenism. This article considers that Dante's attitudes towards east were connected with his clinging religion belief, bright politic ideal and complex experiences base on the historical, politic and religion factors and text analytic method. This reflects Dante's localization about humanism. At the same time, his attitudes also reflect occidental universal ideas towards eastern.