[Dante's cardiology].

Untethered from the more common literary metaphor that sees it as the traditional seat of feelings, what is the image of the heart that Dante's literature delivers to us? And is there an evolution in that image, or does the heart remain the same throughout Dante's poetry? Looking back over the works written by Dante Alighieri in the course of his literary career, we can discover that the heart is a central organ in all his poetry and also in his long and bumpy path to salvation, from hell to heaven; and that this path could also be understood as a path to healing, in which there is no lack of descriptions of symptoms, medicines and doctors to whom we can entrust our health.