Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Dante) was born in May 1265. His family had involvement in the Florentine politics. Due to his family’s political duties, Dante was able to meet and befriend many aristocrats such as Guido Cavalcanti, who is later found in Dante’s Inferno. Dante married into the Donati family, yet his true love was a woman named Bice, although he called her Beatrice. Bice, to most scholars, was the daughter of Folco Portinari, a wealthy banker at the time, and later the wife of another banker,…

Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri remains a work that is one of the most haunting and influential works in Western literature, despite being over six hundred years old. The idea of Hell crafted by Dante has inspired many different people since it was written. It is admired for its vivid and horrible imagery, and the lasting impression that it leaves on the readers of this work. One of the sensory elements in Dante’s Inferno is the darkness that is all throughout the work. This is not just the…

The physical world in Dante’s Alighieri coexists with the physical world of the Bhagavad Gita in the matters as actions affect the personal standing of the world to come afterwards. These two literary works are different in terms that those terms of cowardice or betrayal to one’s kingdom by surrendering the throne is punishable in the different levels of Dante’s hell. The levels of Dante’s Alighieri in which one is sent is determined by their internal, external conflicts and actions in the…

The Propelling Plot In the Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the character Dante, a poet, goes on a journey through hell with a poet named Virgil. Together, they descend through the nine circles of hell and learn about the sins of the souls that reside there. Dante begins his journey through hell as a naïve, sympathetic, man, but as the story progresses we see a dramatic change in the way that Dante views things. It seems unusual, in a place such as Hell, that Dante would sympathize with any of the…

1. In the epic poetry, The Inferno of Dante translation by Robert Pinsky (1320), Dante Alighieri implies that the sinners in Hell are selfish and only care about themselves which is also one of the biggest reasons that they ended up in Hell. Alighieri supports this claim by introducing the ten pouches in the eighth circle as they are all connected through fraud which is basically is deceiving others for financial or personal gain which is very much being selfish. The author purposely emphasizes…

Inferno is an epic poem, written by 14th century poet Dante Alighieri, about his descent and accompanying experiences through his depiction of hell in order to reach purgatory and eventually heaven. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy around the year 1265. He is best known for his D ivine Comedy a nd is known as the "Father of modern Italian." His works have left a lasting impression since his death in 1321. When a child lies, he is chastised harshly for it, told how very wrong it is.…

Have you ever felt like you were going through Hell? In Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Dante goes through physical and emotional struggles on his journey through Hell. Dante is believable because he is dramatic, biased, and he shows emotion. Dante is believable because he is very dramatic. In canto one of the novel, Dante exclaims,” Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!” Have you ever been in the car and smelled something not very pleasant and thought it was the worst smell in the…

the renaissance. Dante Alighieri was one of the most influential and important poets and writers of his time, the early renaissance. Born in 1265 Florence italy The italian poet was the child to Alighiero De Gelincine. Dante was a normal child learning at home how to become a politician, but then it all changed when the renaissance started. Dante then pursued a career as a writer. When Dante was in his late 40’s he wrote his most famous book “The Divine Comedy.” In his book Dante is tasked…

changes, albiet gradually. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, written almost 700 years ago, was an important work as it explored the morals and ethics of society in his work, something that was just as uncommmon then as it is now. We know that the physical has changed, but just how much has the metaphysical changed? It is safe to say that the morals and ethics in our society has changed almost dramatically when compared to those that were present when Mr. Alighieri wrote The Inferno.…

There has always been suffering and there will always be suffering; it is part of what makes us human. This is something that has been known for much longer than any of us have even been a part of the human experience. It is something that both Dante Alighieri and William Shakespeare took note of hundreds of years ago and something that both of them thought was a topic important enough to explore through their respective writings Dante’s Inferno and King Lear. With these works being written…