Dante Alighieri

where Charon, after a bit of hesitation, takes them across to the other side. On this side, there is an earthquake which causes Dante, the pilgrim, to faint. In this canto, Dante takes us through the pilgrim's journey of education through hell's entrance by the usage of irony and by the expression of fear and courage. When arriving at the gate of hell, the first thing Dante sees is the inscription on the gate, which reads, Through me you pass into the…

Canto VI of the Inferno lends itself well to the traditional format of a lectura Dantis, in which one canto is lifted from the context of the whole work, and considered as a single poetic entity. This canto is one of the shortest in the Comedy: only one other, Inferno XI, has as few as 115 lines. Canto VI can be regarded as a self-contained unit, since it holds the complete description of one circle of Hell, the third, where Gluttons are punished. The action of the canto is symmetrically framed…

In my opinion, I believe that Dante would have chosen Gustave Doré because Doré’s illustrations match the way Dante intended the reader to view the story. Doré’s drawings are very dark, and represent the way hell is described in the Inferno. The way Dante describes his journey through hell, whether it be the creatures he comes across, or the way the sinner is being punished, is very vivid and dark, much like Doré’s illustrations. Dante’s reasoning for writing the Inferno, in my opinion, is to…

dante’s smirk is rightfully devilish; complementing his own that curves up on his lips far better. the expression remained until he witnesses the front of his pants get yanked apart; button awol, zipper torn but he has no time to respond to the insincerity of his words. the only reply is a hiss through grinding teeth and the creak of wood between tightening fingers. an eagerness couldn’t be contained with those lips pressed against his stiffening cock; that tongue. the upwards motion is enough…

The Guelphs and Ghibellines were two different political parties in Italy and Germany during the Middle Ages. Guelph is derived from “Welf”, a dynasty of Bavarian German dukes who competed for the imperial throne in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Ghibelline is derived from Waiblingen, the Swabian Hohenstaufen dukes who were the Guelphs’ opponents. The Guelph party was sympathetic towards the papacy and the Ghibelline party was sympathetic towards the Holy Roman Emperor. The animosity…

In The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante shows how reading matters in life. There are many reasons of why Dante wrote The Divine Comedy one of them is for literacy purposes. He wrote the comedy in Tuscan Italian instead of Latin; even though, Italian had not been standardized into one language yet. Dante’s Comedy was one of the Italian writing and it became the language that all educated could understand and study. He may have written the comedy for revenge as many think, but in my opinion he wrote…

VARIOUS - morning Dante and Anna sprint like hell down the winding passages of the narrow, dark hallway. The masses of Skin-Walkers breathe down their necks, slowly gaining ground as more of them spill out of doorways, joining the stampede. Dante peeks over his shoulder. The fierce horde getting closer. He withdraws his gun. Blindly, fires rounds over his shoulder. A Skin-Walker leading the pack gets hit. It crumbles, a massive pile up of bodies. Slowing them down a bit. Anna and Dante…

knowing makes one guilty or innocent? Because this question seemed to philosophical and without any definite answer, I decided to deduce an answer from the placement Dante has given these souls. Being still placed in Hell, they are not innocent, but they also deserve no punishment because they chose a virtue path despite not accepting God.…

Consequently, Dante describes how he is enduring the worst punishment even more than that of Brutus and Cassius. “That soul up there which has the greatest pain … is Judas Iscariot” (Dante XXXIV. 428). It can be argued that Judas did not only betray Jesus but also those who followed him because when Jesus was captured in his hidings, his followers were persecuted and he was crucified.…

Dante, a living man, decides to take an adventure through hell to get to heaven. His guide is named Virgil. Virgil was a poet that Dante greatly admired. They voyage through nine circles representing different sins on earth. Each sin matches to one circle in this order:Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath and sullenness, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. In each circle the souls of the sinners are forced into punishments that fit their sin on earth. In almost each circle, Dante finds people…