关键词: 梁启超, 但丁, 英雄崇拜论, 文艺复兴

Abstract: In the history of Dante’s translation in China, Liang Qichao, as the scholar who first translated “Dante” as 但丁(Dan Ding), did not adopt the definition of Dante’s identity as a literary figure in European literary history. Instead, under the influence of Hirata Hisashi’s Italy’s Three Founding Fathers and the concept of “knight-errant” in the Meiji period of Japan, he emphasized Dante’s identity as a political hero in his Biography of the Three Founding Fathers of Italy. Later, under the influence of Carlyle’s “poet-hero theory” and Japan’s “Dante fever,” he adapted Biography of the Three Founding Fathers of Italy into “The New Legend of Rome,” thus emphasizing the importance of Dante’s literary works for the voice of the nation. Furthermore, inspired by Kizo’s History of European Civilization and Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Introduction to the Theory of Civilization, Liang Qichao searched for literary figures comparable to Dante in the history of China, and then completed the preliminary thinking of the self-constructed “Chinese Renaissance.”

Key words: Liang Qichao, Dante, theory of hero worship, Renaissance