Premium Content The Role of Guidance in The Aeneid, Confessions, and The Divine Comedy
By Wendan Li - March 02, 2009
Galileo Galilei once stated that “all truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” However, in order to understand and discover such truths, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. In Virgil’s Aeneid, Saint Augustine’s Confessions, and Dante’s Divine Comedy, all three protagonists are in…
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