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During his adventure, Pilgrim encounters some of history’s most important protagonists like Prophet Muhammad and Judas, who was held guilty for Jesus Christ’s death. "We want to expunge the Divine Comedy from the ministry of education’s scholastic curriculum, or, at least, require the necessary commentary to shed light on the text," said Sereni. Dante is one of Italy’s most famous symbols, so Sereni has some arduous convincing to do. "It’s the umpteenth delirium of the politically correct," said Giulio Ferroni, literature professor at Rome’s La Sapienza University. "The only thing I can say, without breaking into laughter, is to keep your hands off of the Divine Comedy, said Aurelio Mancuso, head of civil rights group Equality Italia. — IANS
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A research group has
said Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy — an epic poem about
travel through hell and heaven — was racist and against Islam and
should be banned from schools in Italy. "The Divine Comedy
is the pillar of Italian literature and a cornerstone of Italian
literature and the educational formation of the country’s
students," said Valentina Sereni, president of Gherush92, an
anti-racism group that works for the UN. "Students are taught the
work’s offensive and discriminatory language without any
filter," she said. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy between
1308 and his death in 1321 while in exile from Florence. In the epic
poem, Dante’s alter ego Pilgrim travels through hell, purgatory and
heaven, and even meets god along the way.