5. HELL IS FULL OF REAL PEOPLE DANTE KNEW PLUS SOME FAMOUS GREEKS, ROMANS AND BIBLICAL FIGURES ALONG WITH MYTHICAL CREATURES.
Each shade that Dante meets and questions is named as someone he knows. The early readers of Dante would have been familiar with most, if not all of them. The difficulty for modern readers is that these people were contemporaries of Dante. It is the punishment not the person that we need to concern ourselves with. (Credits: theviewfromsarisworld.com) 4. DANTE’S JOURNEY INTO THE AFTER LIFE. Dante’s journey into the after life lasts from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300 He explained that there are nine levels of hell: Limbo- virtuous Pagans.. Lascivious. Gluttons. Avaricious and Spendthrifts. Wrathful. Heretics. Violent. Fraudulent. Treacherous. Satan is found in the ninth circle, eating traitors. (Credits: theviewfromsarisworld.com) 3. WHY DID DANTE WRITE THE POEM? The writing of The Comedy was greatly influenced by the politics of late-thirteenth-century Florence. The struggle for power in Florence was a reflection of a crisis that affected all of Italy, and, in fact, most of Europe, from the twelfth century to the fourteenth century—the struggle between church and state for temporal authority. (Credits: theviewfromsarisworld.com) 2. WHO THE HECK IS BEATRICE ANYWAY? We know of Beatrice Portinari because of Dante’s obsession with her. The two met when Beatrice was nine and Dante ten. Beatrice became an object of inspiration (obsession) for years afterward. Dante says they did not formally meet again until nine years later, (nine will be an important number in poem) although Dante saw Beatrice around Florence but never had the nerve to speak to her. During their second meeting Beatrice greeted Dante as she walked by. This apparently sent him over the moon as judged by the words he wrote later: “The hope of her admirable greeting abolished in me all enmity and I was possessed by a flame of charity, and if anyone had asked me a question I would have said only Love! with a countenance full of humility” Beatrice died in 1290 at the age of 25. Dante never did forget her. (Credits: theviewfromsarisworld.com) 1. HE WAS THE FATHER OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE. Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet and philosopher best known for the epic poem The Divine Comedy. The poem is broken into three “books or sections,” each representing one of the three tiers of the Christian afterlife: purgatory, heaven, and hell. This poem is considered the greatest work of Italian literature. Dante is thought of as the father of modern Italian. The poem is labeled a ‘comedy” because he penned it in the “low” Italian language, not the “high” Latin language as was the norm of the day. Works penned in the language of the masses were considered “comedies”. Dante was the first to pen a serious poem in a native language. (Credits: theviewfromsarisworld.com) Did you like reading "The Divine Comedy" ? Yes.Then most readers loved reading these 3 books on Amazon as well.
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