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of their Kommando, comes down and requests that Levi go with him to pick up soup. As they take the long way to the soup kitchen, Levi decides that he genuinely wants to teach Jean Italian. With only a limited amount of time, he begins to recite the Canto of Ulysses from Dante’s Inferno. Although the passages are becoming unrecognizable, Levi is determined to share with Jean the sudden urgency he feels to tell the story. In a particular section, he states, “…think of your breed; for brutish…

Dante’s masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, remains popular with the public because of the use of many different techniques to entice the readers. His complex characters resonate with readers new and old, which adds to the Divine Comedy being a classic. Dante, who has an interesting life, constructs a story about something that people were unable to picture or even think about: Hell. The idea of Hell was an interesting concept that Dante can exploit when he wrote the Divine Comedy. Dante also…

Opera means work in Italian and is the name given to a dramatic play set to music where the performers sing their parts accompanied or unaccompanied by music in solos called arias and two or more singers called ensembles. The sixteenth century saw the beginning of operas which started as poems sung by musicians called Camerata (“society”). In 1607 Claudio Monteverdi first used an orchestra to accompany his opera, La favola d’Orfeo, creating the modern opera we know today. (London: Octopus…

Francesca Da Rimini, whom emotionally compels Dante with her story of her affair, which lead to her death and ultimately her damnation. He speaks of her in gentle terms such as “those two swept together so lightly on the wind and still so sad.” (Inferno, Canto V,) It is ironic that in a place as dark as hell Dante can view some of the damned as light. As a result of the character Dante’s pity for the lustful souls the author, I think, is letting his readers know that it is ok for us to also feel…

Pietro della Vigna, a character from Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is the focal point of this paper. Pietro’s introduced in the Inferno Canto XIII, corresponding to the Second Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell. Of all characters that I have come across in the Divine Comedy, Pietro to me is extremely significant as he does not claim that he was wrongfully punished in hell but worries of being recognized as an unfaithful person in the world. The concept of this paper surrounds the idea of Pietro and…

Moreover, not only is the presence of the three individuals in the ninth circle and last division an indicator of why they are the worst sinners, but also the punishment they endure helps in indicating how adverse their actions were. In the Bible, Judas Iscariot is the ultimate betrayer because not only was he a disciple of Jesus but also because he exploited his position to get riches and betray the Savior of the world. Consequently, Dante describes how he is enduring the worst punishment even…

punishment” that dictates the relationship between sin and punishment. This construct is seen throughout the circles of hell, but there are those that fit so perfectly with the sin that the damned souls have committed. One prime example of this is in Canto XIII, here Dante travels through a dark and gnarled forest of those who have committed violence against themselves. While other circles contain very exact methods of “counter punishment”, the 7th circle, violence against themselves takes it a…

through his poem “ The Divine Comedy: Inferno” which is one of the great poem he wrote. He describes how middle of his age, he ends up lost in the woods, and how he tries to leave but he cannot, which is the beginning of Dante’s journey to hell in Canto 1. This paper argues that, going to hell is not an easy road and it takes a lot of misery and fear, the people who have made mistakes during their lifetimes, they end up in the hell based on the level of how bad their mistakes were and Dante was…

of Hell that is very briefly described: The Vestibule. The Vestibule is the false home to those labeled “uncommitted”; the lost souls who travel the boundaries of Hell searching for their meaning. In lines 32-48 of Ciardi's translation of the third canto of the Inferno, Virgil explains to Dante that there are two types of people who inhabit the outer ring, the angels of neutrality and the faithless. The text reveals to us that the angels simply refused to partake in the battle between God or…

sun was seen as a symbol of intellectual power and illumination, it could even represent God. This “planet” was perfect for the theologians and wise men because, like the sun, they shined wisdom and knowledge to the people around them. Dante begins Canto X by praising God through his creation of paradise and finds himself on the star of the sun. When Dante looks he sees figures that are “brilliant…