The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante Alighieri Major Characters • Dante Alighieri o Thirty-five years old at the beginning of the journey ( half of man’s biblical life span “threescore and ten years” (Psalm 90:10) o Lost his way on “the true path” of life ( sin has obstructed his path to God o Explores the nature of sin by traveling through hell o Rooted in the Everyman allegorical tradition ( represents humanity o Little known about his life
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Cited: Price‚ Michele and Coleman Jr.‚ William S.E. “Retold Classic Myths.” United States of America: Perfection Learning® Corporation‚ 1990 Creation of the Titans. 6 and 11. Prometheus. 23 and 24. The Twelve Labors of Heracles. 39. Aeneas’ Trip to the Underworld. 77. The Follies of Midas. 93 and 96.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini is a versatile and inspired Italian artist in the history of baroque art. Sculptor and architect are the two well-known characters. However‚ Gian Lorenzo Bernini is also a painter‚ a city planner and a man of the theater. Bernini was born in Naples in 1598. He was the sixth child of Pietro Bernini‚ who is originally from Florence. In 1606‚ Gian Lorenzo Bernini learns the art of sculpture from his father. His talent was soon observed by both the painter Annibale Carracci and Pope
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Stairway to Heaven‚ originally titled A Matter of Life and Death‚ captures a distant interpretation of traditional views of Heaven‚ Hell‚ and Judgment. The directors do this by reshaping standard images of Heaven‚ eliminating Hell and restructuring Judgment. All together this created a vastly different afterlife than was constructed by classic artists such as Dante‚ and Michelangelo. Death is uniquely contradictory in Stairway to Heaven. Death seems to
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One apparent purpose of a Renaissance education was to praise the value of useful education‚ through the teaching of the classics‚ mainly Greek literature that was written by Greek philosophers‚ mathematicians and other important figures. Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini‚ stated on his book‚ On the Education of Free Men‚ 1450‚ that the study of the Philosophy and of Letters was the guide to the meaning of the past‚ present‚ and even future. There may be some bias to this statement‚ for Piccolomini
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know was in continuous touch with the artist‚ conceivably play a role in the purchase of the painting? In 1606–7‚ when he was associate Vice Legate to Ferrara‚ Paolo Savelli had assisted Scipione in obtaining Dosso Dossi’s canvases with the story of Aeneas‚ then still in the Este castle in Ferrara. Might Scipione have returned the favor by assisting in Savelli in acquiring a work by
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ROME AND THE PAPAL STATES Cola di Reinzo read many ancient Latin books and became very knowledgeable and wanted roman freedom and led a conspiracy to take over the city for the people The popes of the Renaissance had a dual position. On the one hand‚ they were‚ as rulers of the church‚ entrusted with the spiritual welfare of Christendom; on the other‚ they were the heads of an Italian city-state. Their failure to reconcile these two positions or rather‚ their devotion to the second at the expense
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Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches that the end for which man is made is to be reunited with the divine goodness of God through virtuous behavior as well as the use of rational human intellect in order to know and love God above all. Dante Alighieri composed The Inferno based upon Aquinas ’ theological teachings - teachings which were most significantly influenced by Aristotelian philosophy but had an overall theological theme. Instead of Alighieri exemplifying man ’s expected end of reuniting with
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saw how insane myths‚ woven into Nazism and Communism‚ distorted truth and unleashed demonic energies. And so‚ it’s good to know what urges us on one journey and not another–the gifts of insight and maturity. Heroes such as Gilgamesh‚ Odysseus‚ Aeneas‚ Arjuna‚ and Dante search the underworld (the one below filled with shades‚ or the daylight one we‚ at times‚ inhabit) in order to reach their real
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Mythology the Past and Present Nike is the winged goddess of victory according to Greek mythology. She sat at the side of Zeus‚ the ruler of the Olympic pantheon‚ in Olympus. A mystical presence‚ symbolizing victorious encounters‚ Nike presided over history’s earliest battlefields. A Greek would say‚ "When we go to battle and win‚ we say it is Nike." Synonymous with honored conquest‚ Nike is the twentieth century footwear that lifts the world’s greatest athletes to new levels of mastery and achievement
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