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    history‚ people around the world attempt to comprehend the will of the deific being. Great poet and Italian politician‚ Dante Alighieri is one who also underwent this life-long journey for understanding. In the epic‚ The Divine Comedy‚ Dante allegorically records his quest to overcome his sins and find god’s love. Specifically in The Inferno‚ an imaginative and gripping epic‚ Dante explores the nature of sin by traveling through numerous layers of hell. Unlike many other works‚ the detailed descriptions

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    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

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    Sinclair and Dante: Packingtown‚ Chicago and the Nine Circles of Hell Allie Sheppeck Mr. Cosme English 10 12 March 2012 Sinclair and Dante: Packingtown‚ Chicago and the Nine Circles of Hell Chicago in 1906 was considered ‘hell.’ Is that a coincidence‚ or did Sinclair get inspiration from Hell itself? The workers of Packingtown may have felt that they were experiencing Dante’s Inferno and the punishments with it. Sinclair noticed this as well‚ as he made many allusions to Dante when describing

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    Josh Dodson Literature Mrs. Elliot February 9‚ 2012 Dante’s Inferno The second circle of this hell is lust. Dante set up his hell with nine levels. each level has a different punishment for a different sin. the lower level you go‚ the worse the punishment gets. the easiest punishment is level one which is paganism and it descends and gets harder from there. Each level is designed to accommodate the people that will be in it and the punishments that are in each. there are several images of people

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    PANTALONE: Pantalone is of top pecking order. He is wealthy and controls the finance in the character world of commedia‚ therefore his orders are usually obeyed by all. He is the father of Isabella. He wears dark colours of black‚ grey and red; dynamic Pantaloons‚ tight-fitting long red trousers or red breeches and stockings‚ a short tight-fitting jacket‚ a loose long black cloak with plain sleeves‚ red-woollen skull-cap and yellow turkish slippers. He is lean and scrawny and often short in stature

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    finds both at the same time and through the same person. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe‚ by Benjamin Alire Saenz‚ Aristotle is the average angry‚ done with life teenager that lives in El Paso Texas. He is friendless‚ miserable‚ and spends his days thinking about his brother in jail. He also suffers from low self esteem. However this all changes when he meets Dante at a pool one fateful summer day. Dante is happy‚ fun loving‚ free spirited‚ creative‚ and confident. However

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    INFLUENCE OF ARISTOTLE TO DANTE ALIGHIERI IS PREVAILENT IN HIS WORKS In partial fulfillment Of the Requirement in English IV Dante continually refers to Aristotle as the “master” or the “great philosopher” in most of his non-fictional works like the De Monarchia. The foundation of Dante’s philosophy is said to be founded from the teachings of St. Aquinas and St. Augustine because Dante’s idea of a universal ruler is based from St. Aquinas’ idea “that the church exercises its authority

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    Jeremy Zepeda Mrs. Bowers English 10th 16 May 2012 Compare and Contrast Edmond Dantes and Joseph from the Bible are similar because they both were betrayed. People that Dantes and Joseph thought they could trust were the same people who falsely accused them. They both got everything taken away from them and were both sent to prison. “Dantes was now thirty-three years old‚ as we have said‚ and his fourteen years in prison had brought what might be described as a great spiritual change to

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    n Alighieri’s Inferno he highlights the fact that corruption frequently occurs amongst human beings due to incorrect reefing practices. Many of the sinners throughout Inferno were unable to read texts allegorically henceforth leading to corruption. The first example of poor reading practices would be in the case of Francesco and Pablo. Francesca’s cheated on her husband with his brother Pablo. She blames her infidelity‚ however‚ on the work of literature she was reading‚ Lancelot. She states

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    Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) William-Adolphe Bouguereau The image depicts a scene from Inferno‚ a classical poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 1300’s in which Dante is led through the levels of Hell by the dead poet Virgil. In this particular moment‚ Dante is witnessing the horrors of the wrathful in Hell. Clearly‚ Dante is the figure cloaked in beige and covering his mouth in utter disbelief. His eyes‚ however‚ are not directed at the two fighting men. He is staring off towards the

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