Divine simplicity

In Dante’s Inferno, the uncommitted are destined to a deserved fate that represents the actions they chose or refused to choose in life. Dante encounters them on his journey to Hell. Their fate is constant punishment and torment for not following God. Although they do not commit evil acts during their life, they are deserving of this treatment since they never stood up for what is right. I feel that their decision to choose a side was a choice and was punished in the afterlife. The uncommitted…

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…

Deciding the accuracy of the order of sin in Dante’s Inferno, was not easy for me to initially question. Without much familiarity of Christian’s thought on sin, other than not to do them, I decided to start my analysis of Dante’s order of sin from the top. I agree with the placement of Limbo as being the first circle of Hell because the victims had no knowledge of God. My one question for this circle is if not knowing makes one guilty or innocent? Because this question seemed to philosophical…

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…

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…

When pity, as an emotion, becomes more and more profound, it increasingly comes off as sympathy. Over time, it evolves into compassion for those who are suffering given misfortunes. Undoubtedly, “pity and sympathy are based on an initial relationship of fellow feeling, or identification with the circumstances and feelings of another” (Walton, p.88). Dante uses his characters in Inferno to explore or conceptualize the pity concept. Based on the characters, he builds up unsettled moral standards…

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.…

Fig. 46. In the early Renaissance, Dante’s Inferno, became a powerful classic that dramatized Satan’s sphere of influence in hell; drawing by Giovanni Stradano, 1550. It occurred first as part of the epic, The Divine Comedy, and became known as a devilishly chilling account of Satan’s domain. A s mentioned in the last chapter, after the Emperor Constantine’s conversion into Christianity around A.D. 325, he ordered the closing of a significant amount of pagan cults and orgiastic temples…

Dante Gabriel Rossetti once dug up his wife’s grave to retrieve his lost poems; that is adumbrative of his dedication to writing and art. In London, England on May 12th, 1828, an Italian teacher gave birth to one of the best literary minds of all time, Dante Rossetti born Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, his father, an Italian political refugee, and college professor(Riggs, 1998). Born into a family of talent, Dante was the second of four children in the Rossetti family, all four of which would…

In Dante’s Inferno, contrapasso, or the law of retribution, is very present as each circle of Hell contains different types of punishments for each type of sinner. Iconic historical figures are found throughout Hell suffering retribution for their sins. This is important as Dante specifically wanted to show no one is above God no matter how important they were in life. The idea of contrapasso isn’t unique to Dante as the law of an eye for an eye is found in the Old Testament. However, Dante’s…