{"title":"Classics","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-divina-comedia","title":"The Divine Comedy","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"559\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e most dangerous poem the West has ever produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"559\"\u003eUnder the guise of a spiritual journey, Dante Alighieri constructs a machine of judgment, a map for navigating desire and guilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"559\"\u003eThe poem begins in hell, like everything that is truly human, and ascends to paradise through the power of language, not faith. Dante constructs human transcendence as a feat of engineering. Every verse is a sentence, every image a mirror in which we see ourselves reflected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"561\" data-end=\"999\"\u003eDante's journey is also one of revenge. The exiled Florentine transforms politics, love, and metaphysics into a single, organized fury. 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Hell as the price to pay for absolute lucidity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quetzal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51904733511946,"sku":null,"price":24.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/300x_1.webp?v=1759831636"},{"product_id":"o-misantropo","title":"The misanthrope","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"985\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eA comedy. Brilliant. And therefore uncomfortable. Premiered in 1666 (bring on the conspiracy theories), the play ironically and lucidly exposes the social hypocrisy of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"985\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eAlceste is unable to tolerate falsehood and flattery. He defends the truth, even when it hurts, and therefore clashes with everyone around him. His honesty, however, does not make him a hero; it makes him tragic. Molière dismantles easy morality and shows that, in a world governed by appearances, sincerity can be a form of madness. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"985\" data-start=\"0\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"633\" data-start=\"619\"\u003eThe Misanthrope\u003c\/em\u003e is a comedy about ourselves. Laughter, a weapon. Almost 400 years have passed. So much has changed. But at the same time, we have changed so little.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1556\" data-start=\"987\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMolière (1622–1673)\u003c\/strong\u003e, the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, was the greatest playwright of classical France and one of the greatest satirists in literary history. He created a theatre that combined intelligence, humour and social criticism, revealing the moral contradictions of his time. 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His work, marked by the ambiguity between the spiritual and the profane, deeply influenced the Symbolists, the Decadents, and all of 20th-century literature. A marginal figure, always in conflict with morality and his time, he lived between misery, illness, and the obsessive search for beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relógio D'Água","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51914911285514,"sku":null,"price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-29-at-17.23.37.webp?v=1760003980"},{"product_id":"iliada","title":"Iliad","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"1043\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eAttributed to Homer, it is one of the inescapable foundations of Western literature. 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In every verse of the \u003cem data-is-only-node=\"\" data-end=\"447\" data-start=\"439\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e resonates a profound understanding of destiny and limitation, themes that have shaped literary imagination for millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1043\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eThe narrative structure, the sense of rhythm, the intensity of the imagery, and the emotional depth paved the way for all the literature that followed, from Virgil to Joyce, from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1043\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eReading the \u003cem data-end=\"781\" data-start=\"773\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e is returning to the source, not as one visits an ancient monument, but as one recognises a language that is still alive. The Greek epic continues to challenge us because, beneath the armour of the heroes, lies the same awe and the same fragility that define the human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-is-only-node=\"\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-end=\"1555\" data-start=\"1045\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Homer\u003c\/strong\u003e, little is known and everything is imagined. He is believed to have lived between the 9th and 8th centuries BC and to also be the author of the \u003cem data-end=\"1189\" data-start=\"1179\"\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e. His figure moves between history and myth, just like the characters he created. But regardless of his biography, Homer remains the starting point of all Western literature — the first to transform the human experience into enduring words. 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