Dante Alighieri

Dante The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory. Great Britain. The Penguin Classics Heinze, T. (1996). Answers to my Catholic Friends. United States of America: Chick Publications Online Rabiipour, N. (2017, November 1). What Do Catholics Really Believe About…

Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986), 1059. Subsequent references are given in parenthesis within the text. Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (New York: Broadway, 2007), 17. See Sheffield, 17–-23. Subsequent references are given in parentheses within the text. Geoffrey O’Brien, Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life (New York: Counterpoint, 2004), 108.…

doings and evil persons that inhabit each level. A current example of this that we see in today’s world is through the eyes of a TV screen with shows like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad we can compare the characters of Tony Soprano and Walter White to Dante journey through hell while the seasons progress we see the changes of that character progressively get worse. Which leads me to this point why are we so enthralled with the “evil” doings of these characters that are on a permit path of…

Dante Alighieri once said, “There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time when miserable.” Though not directly mentioned, the idea of the quote seems to be explored thoroughly in both “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” by Henry David Thoreau, and “Once More to the Lake,” by E.B. White. While both of these authors float around several thoughts including reality, advancements, and living in general, they take very different approaches to do so. In “Once More to the Lake,”…

From Spoken Words to Written Works Since the dawns of civilizations, people have used literature not only to express their feelings and their imagination but also to narrate what happened on their surroundings. During the medieval period there was a sudden rebirth of literature. Spoken legends orally composed were transformed into written poems and hymns. New writing styles were introduced by those poets and scholars who traveled with the Crusaders – people who went on expeditions for the…

general feelings towards the aliens of our culture. With all the controversy in these two books both books had a similar connection. Dante Alighieri, the inventor of the Fourfold Method of Interpretation, gives readers and teachers a method to expand their thoughts from a concrete understanding to an abstract understanding of the novels that they are reading. Dante has 4 layers to his fourfold…

Mary Edwards Walker shut down her practice and headed to Washington, DC, where she found a city overrun with soldiers wounded during the Battle of Bull Run.[4] Walker believed that she had an obligation to act that inaction wasn't an option, Dante Alighieri wrote that “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” [5] She went straight to Secretary of War Simon Cameron and presented herself as a willing and able surgeon.…

Since the beginning of human history, there have been several obstacles that have shaped this planet—from the first existence of Homo sapiens, to the development of tools and art, to the creation of the first civilizations like those in Ancient Mesopotamia to great western civilizations that have derived during the time like Ancient Greece and then Ancient Rome. But society was not always structural in which technology kept rising for the better. The Dark Ages or better known as the Middle Ages,…

Italian Renaissance (ital. Rinascimento-"rebirth" or "born again") – a period in the history of European culture, which replaced the culture of the Middle Ages and the previous culture of modern times. Renaissance art emerged based on humanism-- currents of public thought, which originated in the XIV century. In Italy, and then during the second half of the XV and XVI centuries spread to other European countries. Humanism is proclaimed the highest value of man and his benefit. The followers of…

at other pieces of artwork that are from then as well as from similar regions of the world. There are no other paintings depicting instances from the bible that can be considered from an outsider angle, those of artists like William Blake and Dante Alighieri whom took Christianity into its darker side. While this painting in particular, all of the Sistine Chapel is beautiful and itself a complete and utter masterpiece, “Adam’s Creation” always stuck out to me more, from my own outside point of…