How Did Dante Alighieri Play In Dante's Inferno?
The Divine Comedy is considered by many to be one of the greatest epic poems ever written. The allegorical epic was written by Dante Alighieri who was born in Florence, Italy in 1265, to a moderately wealthy family that had a history of involvement in the remarkably complex Florentine politics. Dante Alighieri included much of his personal life and his own views of the politics of the late thirteenth-century Florence as he was writing The Divine Comedy. As a result, The Divine Comedy is somewhat of an autobiographical work of Dante Alighieri’s own life.
In the Inferno, Dante is lead through Hell by Virgil with hopes of getting to Heaven to see his beloved, Beatrice. It was Beatrice, along with two other holy women, who sent Virgil to guide …show more content…
Dante Alighieri held a number of significant public offices during a time of great political unrest in Italy. In 1302, Dante Alighieri was exiled for life by the leaders of the Black Guelphs, the political organization in power of Florence, Italy at the time. Dante’s work on The Comedy, later called The Divine Comedy, consisting of the three books Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso was done after his exile. Dante completed his allegorical journey through Hell, Inferno, around 1314. Dante roamed throughout the many courts of Italy, writing and occasionally lecturing, until 1321 when he dies from a sudden …show more content…
For example, Dante as the poet often portrays Dante as the character as compassionate and sympathetic at the sight of suffering sinners. Dante as the poet, however, chose to place the sinners in Hell and devised their suffering. Because of this, Dante as the character is a very simplified version of Dante as the poet for he is sympathetic, moderately afraid of danger, and is morally and intellectually confused by his experience in Hell. “As the poem goes on, Dante as the character slowly learns to abandon what sympathy he has and learns to embrace a more heartless attitude toward the penalizing of sinners, which he views as simply a reflection of divine justice” (Raffa
In the Inferno, Dante is lead through Hell by Virgil with hopes of getting to Heaven to see his beloved, Beatrice. It was Beatrice, along with two other holy women, who sent Virgil to guide …show more content…
Dante Alighieri held a number of significant public offices during a time of great political unrest in Italy. In 1302, Dante Alighieri was exiled for life by the leaders of the Black Guelphs, the political organization in power of Florence, Italy at the time. Dante’s work on The Comedy, later called The Divine Comedy, consisting of the three books Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso was done after his exile. Dante completed his allegorical journey through Hell, Inferno, around 1314. Dante roamed throughout the many courts of Italy, writing and occasionally lecturing, until 1321 when he dies from a sudden …show more content…
For example, Dante as the poet often portrays Dante as the character as compassionate and sympathetic at the sight of suffering sinners. Dante as the poet, however, chose to place the sinners in Hell and devised their suffering. Because of this, Dante as the character is a very simplified version of Dante as the poet for he is sympathetic, moderately afraid of danger, and is morally and intellectually confused by his experience in Hell. “As the poem goes on, Dante as the character slowly learns to abandon what sympathy he has and learns to embrace a more heartless attitude toward the penalizing of sinners, which he views as simply a reflection of divine justice” (Raffa