Filippo Argenti

In canto eight, Dante calls Filippo Argenti,” hell-dog,” and,” so filthy and so foul.” This shows that Dante is biased because Filippo Argenti is his enemy. In general, people hate their enemies and Hell is the worst place anyone could go. Dante is glad that Argenti ends up in Hell and that he is suffering because he strongly dislikes Argenti. Dante does not know about his personal life, or if he does or does not repent. In canto five…

circle of hell where they encounter Filippo Argenti, a long time enemy of the Guelph’s, while they are riding a boat on the river Styx. The reader is struck with an image of a wrathful Dante and Virgil and must decide whether or not their actions are justified. Depending on what the reader decides, it shows whether they too are wrathful or not. Within lines 31-66, Filippo comes up from the river to ask who is in hell before his time. Dante also asks who he is and Filippo answers that it is he…

Examples of characters that Alighieri is hostile towards are Filipo Argenti and Pope Nicholas III, and to prove this, Alighieri uses diction for both sinners, and in Pope Nicholas III’s case, he also uses the nature of his punishment. He is sympathetic, however, towards Pier De Vigne, and this is proven because of the inclusion of Vigne’s backstory and the interaction between Vigne, Dante, and Virgil. Filippo Argenti is the first sinner in the epic poem to receive hostile treatment from Dante…

George Shehata Honors English 2; Period 1 Mr. Rasmussen 16 December 2016 Empathy Compassion, it’s an emotional response used to demonstrate someone’s sense of pity, and it’s given when people feel sympathy or empathy towards another suffering human being. But what if an author writes an entire epic dealing with sinners who fall from the grace of God, and are punished, but the author still feels sympathy or empathy towards them? What would that look like? In Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno, Dante…

insult, but rather a suggestion of something infamous and despicable. Angry, greedy, savage, mad, cruel are the qualities that Alighieri seems to see in dogs that apply to the inhabitants of Hell, as one can see through Dante’s encounters with Filippo Argenti and Bocca degli…

puts in hell manifests what he believes about leadership. In the fifth level of hell, Dante’s reaction to finding Filippo Argenti is harsh (Dante 143). Dante gets excited to see Filippo getting punished and shows deep resentment towards him. “Master, it certainly would make me happy to see him dunked deep in the slop just once before we leave this lake—it truly would” (Dante 140). Argenti is a member of the political faction opposite Dante and in hell for being wrathful. Ezzelino III, another…

One of the fundamental purposes of the idea of sin is to establish the threat of an eternity spent in Hell. The goal of this scare tactic is to encourage people to live a morally sound life in order to earn a worthy afterlife. But the idea that a happy afterlife must be earned by living a good life while alive is not a new concept. This idea has existed in several religions before Christianity and it’s (meticulous/precise) and specific list of sins to avoid. People do not need the specific…

Dante’s inferno is the first of Dante Alighieri's poem, the Divine Comedy, which chronicles Dante's journey to God, and is made up of the Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise). In his writing of the Inferno he adds commentary on the politics, economics, and culture of the Middle Ages. Which was very different during his time, especially with the problem’s growing with the white and black factions. And Beatrice the women he fell in love with at first sight. Even though…

When he began working on The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri likely had no idea that it would become widely regarded as one of the most graphic depictions of hell ever written. This epic, narrative, and satirical poem is written in the first person, and follows Dante as he loses his way in a forest and travels through the circles of Hell. Even in the present day it is still read in classrooms, as well as a video game and animated movie based on the epic poem. This epic poem has not only been…

Overcoming one’s evils is no easy feat, and this is made especially clear as the reader is given a tour through hell, in which the main character has to face his sins and overcome them. Dante’s Inferno by Dante is widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, detailing Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell. Each circle in this depiction of hell acts as an inescapable prison (in most cases) where sinners are judged and placed into, having to be punished for their…