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    Paolo and Francesca

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    PAOLO AND FRANCESCA  Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)  more Artful Romance | François-Auguste-René Rodin (1886) |      The story of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta is told in Inferno (part of Divine Comedy) by Dante. Paolo and Francesca were historical contemporaries of Dante. Francesca’s father‚ Guido da Polenta‚ lord of Ravenna had waged a long war with Malatesta‚ lord of Rimini. Finally peace was made through intermediaries‚ and to make it more firm‚ they decided to cement it with a marriage

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    Question 5 Paolo and Francesca suffer the punishment in the hell because of lust. Since they are addicted to the temporary pleasure of the flesh in life and are unable to control the internal love regardless of morality‚ they are not permitted to love each other in the hell even if their bodies tangle together. However‚ Cante shows a permissive attitude towards their love story. In Canto 5‚ we can see that in the conversation between Cante and Francesca‚ most of words come from Francesca and Cante

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    Dante’s Francesca and Paolo: "She Loves You‚ Yeah‚ Yeah‚ Yeah" In Canto V of The Inferno‚ Dante offers what seems to be a sympathetic portrait of two medieval lovers caught and condemned after re-enacting a passionate scene from Arthurian Romance. A modern reader might well find the story of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta moving‚ especially when the narrator himself swoons with pity at the canto’s end. It is true that in Dante’s ethical scheme‚ the sin of Paolo and Francesca is not among

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    Inferno Essay

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    Macy Verges June 12th‚ 2011 Ribb 1 Inferno Essay The idea of sin has been present in the minds of humans since the beginning of time‚ however Dante Alighieri ’s literary masterpiece‚ Inferno brought the reality of sin to life. Some suspect Dante wrote Inferno because he was experiencing some form of a mental breakdown‚ others insist that he wrote Inferno to educate people about sin. Inferno begins on the evening of Good Friday‚ when Dante the poet is lost traveling about in a Dark Wood. The

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    Saving Francesca

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    Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (2003) • St Stella friends use to guide her identity. • Mia is suffering depression and is no longer telling Francesca who she should be and what she should be doing. • Francesca has always been influenced by her mother and her St. Stella friends who she is and now that the connection is lost so is Francesca and her identity. • Starting at St. Sebastian’s is giving her the opportunity to explore who she really is. • The person Francesca is trying to be

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    Saving Francesca

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    Francesca is an ordinary 16 year old Italian girl‚ living in the outskirts of Sydney‚ whilst starting a school that have just begun to accept girls. Francesca has been thrown into the deep end and is sinking real fast. As she has just left her old all girl school - St Stella’s and now is finding it difficult to go on without her friends that always guide her identity. On top of this her rock‚ her mother Mia is suffering from depression and is no longer telling Francesca who she should be. Francesca

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    1 “The Feminine” in Dante’s The Inferno Like many great authors throughout time‚ Dante Alighieri demonstrates the underlying significance of female characters in his epic‚ The Inferno. Due to the misconceptions men had of women during this era‚ women were granted much less societal acceptance and were easily labelled as seductresses. More so‚ Beatrice’s character suggests a much deeper relationship to Dante – one more than plain‚ physical love. In this sense‚ the women in this poem

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    Paolo Soleri

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    In 1946 Soleri was awarded his "laurea" (M.Sc. degree) with highest honors in architecture from the Politecnico di Torino. He visited the United States in 1947 and spent a year and a half being partners with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona‚ and at Taliesin in Spring Green in Wisconsin. During this time he gained international recognition for a bridge design displayed at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1950 Soleri returned to Italy where he was commissioned to build a large ceramics factory

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    Dante's Inferno

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    Dante’s Inferno Circle two‚ the sin of lust is a place where there are constant whirlwinds and where people who have affairs or not honest relationships. In the book two sinners that Dante has put there is Francesca and Paolo because Paolo is Francesca brother-in-law and they had an adult relationship together. The punishment of the sin of lust is that the sinners are in a constant whirlwind. The whirlwind is described in the book as “Here‚ there‚ up‚ down‚ they whirl and‚ whirling‚ strain/ with

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    Inferno: Pier delle Vigne and Guido da Montefeltro In his poem‚ Inferno‚ Dante Alighieri meets the damned souls in hell. His mentor‚ Virgil‚ a well-known poet and a good friend of Dante’s‚ guides him through out their journey of hell and encourages him to farther question those souls damned in hell. Virgil also explains the structure of hell‚ how it is divided into circles and each circle is the place where those guilty of certain sins are being punished. Through out the poem‚ the souls that

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