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8 Cards in this Set
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In one of this man's works, the fifth and final canzone (cahn-DZO-nay) is interrupted at the death of its subject. He wrote that Eden was found on top of a mountain in the southern hemisphere in a work which used terza rima and was written in his native Tuscan dialect, like the aforementioned La Vita Nuova (lah VEE-tah NUO-vah).
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Dante
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In one poem, Love tells this man to "do your best to honor me" after he "felt a loving spirit suddenly." His beloved's lips produce a tender spirit inciting sighs from the soul in a poem which claims she is "so gentle and so honest." This possible author of the Letter to Can Grande
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Dante
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a work in which he is shocked by the presence of Ripheus the Trojan and sees souls arrange themselves to form the petals of a rose as Saint Bernard prays for him in the Empyrean. In that work, Thomas Aquinas tells him of Francis of Assisi as he ascends through the nine celestial spheres with Beatrice.
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Dante
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This author imagined Satan as a three-faced demon chewing on the heads of Cassius, Brutus, and Judas Iscariot. In one work, this author described riding the back of Geryon to reach Malebolge and meeting the adulterous lovers Paolo and Francesca (Fran-CHE-ska).
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Dante
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At one point, the author of this work sees a woman named Joan who is known as "Spring" because of her beauty, and reflects that her name is appropriate because it derives from John, who preceded Jesus.
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The New Life
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Another section discusses poets who have caused inanimate things to speak, and cites Juno's exchange with Aeolus in the Aeneid as an example.
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The New LIfe
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Jeremiah's line "How doth the city sit solitary" inspires another section, in which the author notes that according to the Arabian calendar a certain person died on the ninth day of the ninth month. Its closing lines were paraphrased in a letter the author wrote to Can Grande della Scala, and feature a sonnet in which a "pilgrim spirit" looks on as splendors move in homage around a lady.
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The New LIfe
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name this work in verse and prose, written in response to the death of the daughter of Folco Portinari by Dante Alighieri.
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The New LIfe
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