The development of foreign Dante’s research in XIX and XX centuries
The article is dedicated to the review of various trends in the foreign research of Dante Alighieri’s heritage, which is very complicated and full of deep philosophic symbolism. The author demonstrates that in different periods of history Dante’s heritage was perceived in different ways: Dante was regarded as an orthodox catholic, as an expression of feudalism, as a revolutionary, as a heretic, or as a poet without time and history. The author claims that this is a result of complicity and deepness of his symbolism.