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God and Hell in Dante’s Inferno
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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…
The Punishment Suits The Crime For Dante
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The Punishment Suits the CrimeIn the Inferno, Dante takes us on a journey through Hell. Dante describes the sins and the punishment in great detail. He puts the severity of the sins in a particular order, where the further one goes down, the more severe the sin. The order that Dante puts the sins in…
| born | Florence, Italy |
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| died | September 14, 1321, Ravenna, Italy |
| description | Dante Alighieri, probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante, was a Florentine poet, writer and philosopher. |
| information | Full name: Durante degli Alighieri Spouse: Gemma Di Manetto Donati (m. 1285–1321) Buried: 1321, Basilica of Saint Francis, Ravenna, Italy |
