Dante

Volume 1 : Inferno Cantos I – XICanto I Halfway through his life, DANTE THE PILGRIM wakes to find himself lost in the dark wood. Terrified at being alone in so dismal a valley, he wanders until he comes to a hill bathed in sunlight, and his fear begins to leave him. But when he…

Frank Addante got his motivation to work from financing his college life in the first years. He worked on his own, sold and installed car alarms and automatic starters. From this time on he continued to earn money through ad-hoc jobs to make his way through college, but he was always conscious for good ideas,…

“The Divine Comedy” by Dante was written to be a guide for religiousinstruction. It explained religious teachings of the time in a story thatwas also entertaining, even though it was filled with moral lessons. Dantealso used this work to express his comment on current events. Dante usesseveral allegorical figures in Purgatorio to express his comments…

In the year 1300 AD, on Good Friday, Dante finds himself straying from the right path and entering the Dark Wood of Error. From this place, he sees the Sun shining on the Mount of Joy, which represents Divine Illumination. Dante tries to climb the mountain but is stopped by three creatures that symbolize worldly…

Part One:Inferno is one the main sections of Dante Alighieri’s long narrative, about 33 cantos, La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) which was estimated to be written somewhere between 1307 and 1321 (Barbi and Ruggiers, 1997). Its vivid scenes and sharply drawn characters highlight Dante’s imaginative journey through the many circles of hell or inferno…

Death and what comes after has ever been a topic of great involvement and uncertainness. Many have tried to picture their ain vision of the hereafter, be it heaven or hell, paradiso or hell. Here, I will discourse the similarities and differences in the snake pit represented in the film What Dreams May Come and…

orioThe Divine Comedy (The Inferno and Purgatorio, in this matter) without Virgil would be like coffee without cream. Without Virgil, Dante would never have completed his journey. Without reason, Dante would never have the courage to go through his redemption. We meet Virgil in the Inferno just when Dante begins to lose all hope in…

Beginning with the late nineteenth century, a new “Romantic” attitude characterized culture and many works of art in Western civilization. It emphasized a revulsion against established values such as social order and religion and exalted individualism, irrationalily, imagination, emotions and nature. Two famous artists from the age of Romanticism are Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Dante…

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. In his life, he created two major books of poesy: Vita Nuova and The Comedy. The Comedy, which was later renamed The Divine Comedy, is an heroic verse form interrupt down into three books in each of which Dante recounts his travels through Hell, Purgatory, and…

According to Dante’s God in The Inferno, the creation of eternal torment for earthly crimes is driven by justice, power, love, and intellect. In Canto III, Ciardi summarizes Dante’s Hell as a place where the punishment is symbolic retribution, meaning that the sinners are punished in a way that matches their sins. This suggests that…