STUDY NOTES FOR DANTE ALIGHIERI'S THE INFERNO
Title: STUDY NOTES FOR DANTE ALIGHIERI'S THE INFERNO
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1862 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
STUDY NOTES FOR DANTE ALIGHIERI'S THE INFERNO
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1862 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Symbols:
Dante: Humanity
Virgil: Human Reason
Beatrice: Divine Love
Sun: Divine Illumination
Dark Wood of Error: Worldliness
Geryon: Dishonesty, Fraud (Head of an innocent man, Body of a serpent)
Furies: Eternal Remorse
Dante's Life:
-Born in Florence, Italy 1265. Died 1321.
-Had an arranged marriage, but he was in love with a woman named Beatrice, but she died when she was 16 years old.
-Dante was involved with the GUELPHS (white group). They fought against the GHIBALLINES (black …showed first 75 words of 1862 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1862 total…like Hell's greatest prisoner as opposed to the popular view of Satan as Hell's leader.
Additional Notes:
Dame Fortune: The Personification of Fortune In the form of a woman.
Islam is affront to Christianity, which is why "DIS" the gate of Hell represents a mosque.
Dante's journey takes place during the time of Christ's resurrection (Easter). Dante was thought to be slightly egotistical by paralleling his personal journey to that of Christ's ultimate Holy journey.
