Dante's Divine Comedy realized that due to the ravages of medieval wars and the prevalence of diseases, the medieval manor economy gradually declined, and the restrictions of landlords on employers gradually weakened. The number of people doing business alone has increased, the mobility of private wealth has increased, the bourgeoisie has emerged and risen, the commodity market has begun to form, and the original feudal castle-like economic system has been broken. Such social changes led to the revival and development of the economy that had been stagnant for a long time in the Middle Ages, the increase of free businessmen, the frequent exchange of goods, the rise of cities and the further improvement of people's living standards. This change made people in the Middle Ages gradually change their pessimistic attitude towards life in the dark period and began to pursue worldly pleasures and worldly happiness. I think this is the prelude to the Renaissance, and it is precisely because of this change in the Middle Ages that the Renaissance was possible.

Reading Dante's life, to be honest, I feel a little distressed. He came from a declining aristocratic family that supported the church. Under the social background of the late Middle Ages, his life must be very difficult. Coupled with the loss of his mother in childhood, Dante himself is very lacking in maternal love, and his feelings in society or family are a little inferior. Just like when he grows up, he treats the woman he cherishes all his life. He didn't communicate, and he didn't express his love. He just watched silently and was silently happy. Dante mentioned in his book that the age of 35 was a watershed in his life, when he was one of the six CEOs. At that time, Florence's political circles were divided into two factions, namely, the black party supporting the church and the white party supporting people's freedom. Regardless of his family background, Dante resolutely stood in the ranks of the White Party, and as a leader, he fought tirelessly against the powerful Pope and nobles. However, because Dante is too young and has no ruling experience, the way of direct ruling makes the black party forces very unhappy. Unexpectedly, the aristocratic forces soon regained power, forcing the court to convict him, sentence him to life exile, and forbid him to return to his hometown, otherwise he would be in hell to pay. Soon after, because Dante wrote to tell henry vii how to invade Florence, the white forces began to hate Dante, and Dante began a painful and lonely exile.

The creation of Divine Comedy is of great significance to us, but for Dante, it may just be the trace left when he entrusted his heart to paper. At the beginning of his political career, regardless of his family's expectations, he resolutely chose to stand on the side he thought was just and support people's freedom, but he was eventually exiled and even his former colleagues began to hate him. A woman who fell in love at first sight as a teenager passed by after years of reunion. He just silently looked at the woman he had loved all his life but never met, and the lack of love in his heart turned into inferiority in this story. He has no parents, no lover to accompany him, or even a bosom friend to talk to. He is a vagrant. He only has a pen. All his hopes for love and all his hatred for Florence were written through this pen. He didn't swear or cry on his back. He arranged people he hated in different places in hell, described his story from hell to heaven with his deep imagination and thoughts, and met the only person he loved in his life. He redeemed his unfortunate fate by writing. He sowed the seeds of pain, but he won the crown of man. Dante is indeed a great man born out of pain.