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    Dante

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    Dante -  The author and protagonist of Inferno; the focus of all action and interaction with other characters. Because Dante chose to present his fictional poem as a record of events that actually happened to him‚ a wide gulf between Dante the poet and Dante the character pervades the poem. For instance‚ Dante the poet often portrays Dante the character as compassionate and sympathetic at the sight of suffering sinners‚ but Dante the poet chose to place them in Hell and devised their suffering. As

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    There is a conflict‚ however‚ between Dante’s philosophy and Pico’s philosophy. In Dante’s The Divine Comedy‚ each soul sought to achieve Heaven‚ and those in Heaven were in bliss no matter where they were in Heaven. Even the souls that were further away from God in Heaven did not want to be higher up because they completely accepted the role of God in deciding where they would end up. One soul that Dante talked to in this circle of Heaven said‚ "We thirst for this alone. If we desired to be higher

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    TITLE: THE CONTRAPPASSO The Divine Comedy was written by Dante Alighieri ‚approximately between 1306 and 1309‚ when Dante was under the final sentence of exile. Historical thought is that the first seven songs‚ of hell‚ were started before Dante left Florence‚ and that only at a later time when the writings were sent to him he continued to write them. Hell is conceived by Dante as a giant chasm in a conical shape that opens from Jerusalem to the center of the earth. Hell is divided into nine

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    Dantes Inferno

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    In his Divine ComedyDante strays from his path and becomes lost in a dark wooded area. The Roman Poet Virgil is sent down to the lost Dante to guide him through the circles of hell and towards his end destination of Paradise. In the first canto The Divine Comedy of Dante’s Inferno the two main characters Dante and Virgil and made apparent. Dante Alighieri develops his character Dante‚ into a man by the end of the comedy. In the beginning Dante is fearful; however his guide Virgil‚ encourages Dante

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    Throughout history there have been poets and directors who have influenced others in the arts and moved audiences all over the world. Poet Dante Alighieri and director Frank Capra have produced works that tell a part of the history from their time period through partially fictional stories. They used their passion in the arts to reflect on social conditions and show how those who fall into evil will suffer and those who stay morally and ethically true to themselves will find paradise in the end

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    Virtue’s Course: A close reading of Canto XXVI of Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno The implications of every word and line in a literary work such as The Inferno can‚ at times‚ be troubling to a new reader‚ and even to those who possess the skill of inference. However‚ when approached as closely and minutely as possible‚ it becomes somewhat simple to draw each word and line separately into something greater‚ giving new life and meaning to the voice of Dante. Canto XXVI begins with false praise to the city

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    Circle The Stygian Lake‚ with the Ireful Sinners Fighting William BlakeIn the swamp-like water of the river Styx‚ the wrathful fight each other on the surface‚ and the sullen or slothful lie gurgling beneath the water. Phlegyas reluctantly transports Dante and Virgil across the Styx in his skiff Sixth Circle Heretics are trapped in flaming tombs. Seventh Circle Lower Hell‚ inside the walls of Dis‚ in an illustration by Stradanus. There is a drop from the sixth circle to the three rings of the seventh

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    Dante Club

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    Summary The novel The Dante Club‚ written by Matthew Pearl‚ begins with John Kurtz‚ Chief of the Boston police‚ investigating a murder that occurred in 1865. The man murdered was Artemus Prescott Healey‚ who was the highest official of the Massachusetts courts. Healey’s body was found naked and covered with insects and maggots on a sandy beach next to his property. His chambermaid insisted that he was still alive when she found him days later‚ and that he cried out before dying. Then Pearl introduces

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    Dante

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    In Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno (1314)‚ Dante is being toured through the layers of hell in hopes that he will see his future punishment and get his life back on the right path. The great Roman poet‚ Virgil‚ is sent to be his guide. Virgil is not only supportive but informational as he leads Dante through the layers of hell. Throughout the story‚ Virgil is repeatedly protecting Dante from hostile demons and monsters. Monstrous Charon‚ in cantos III is bringing the souls over the river to punishment

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    Epic poems are not merely entertaining stories of legendary or historical heroes; they summarize and express the nature or ideals of an entire nation at a significant or crucial point in its history. I have chosen for comparison the Odyssey‚ The Divine Comedy‚ and Paradise Lost. The Odyssey‚ attributed to Homer is about Odysseus‚ the king of Ithaca‚ who sailed with his army to take part in war against Troy. After ten years of war‚ victory is declared and the armies of Odysseus have sailed for home

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