Inferno

Dante’s Inferno is great for dance and specifically ballet because not only does it have a clear narrative but also ballet works through grand romanticized ideas and themes which are what Dante’s writings are full of. Dante uses inventive language and rich imagery that is far ahead of his time. The humanity in his poem, and themes he touches on are timeless; which brings us to the two productions that were both put up early this year. Glenna Burmer’s Dante’s Inferno; The Ballet and Dante’s…

The Inferno has influenced people around the world for almost 700 years. Most people think of Hell as a place where you don’t want to go and is miserable. This is because the Inferno is the basis of what we think of hell. The Inferno is a poem that Dante Alighieri wrote in 1320 about his fictional journey through Hell. The Inferno is the first of three sections of the Divine Comedy and would become one of the most famous books of its time. Throughout the poem, the reader can tell that Dante uses…

Inferno by Dan Brown was published on May 14, 2013. Inferno is a literary thriller. The basic plot of the novel revolves around Zobrist, an evil genius, and his horrifying plot to drastically reduce the world’s population in order to balance the environment and centers around one of world’s most mysterious literary masterpieces, Dante’s Inferno. The story starts in Florence where a hospitalized Harvard professor Robert Langdon is awoken with a head wound that leaves him unable to recall how or…

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 creates a certain type of connection between a soul’s sin on Earth and, the punishment he or she shall receive in Hell. This idea provides many of Inferno’s moments of the imagery between good and evil, the symbolic power of each circle and what it represents, not only to Dante but the reader; as well as shedding a light on one of Dante’s major themes expressed throughout the book: the perfection of God’s justice. “The inscription over the gates of Hell in Canto III explicitly states that…

Intro-Dante Alighieri's narrative poem The Divine Comedy played an effective role in initiating the protestant reformation and revealing to the common person the importance of living a righteous life. In the Divine Comedy's Inferno, Dante and Virgil Journey through the nine fictional levels of Hell. Dante represents the human soul, and Virgil represents human reason. Throughout the journey they discover the punishments the sinners of Hell face eternally, based on their crimes. Each crime has its…

be proper justice. The contrapassos of the final circle of hell, which is pride, and therefore host the worst sinners there are. The contrapassos simony and pride are two of the worst sins one can commit and while lust is only at the beginning of inferno, it is still a deadly sin. The Portable Dante shows this through wildly explicit details of vivid images through words and dialogue. The Portable Dante shows these sins…

The Inferno by Dante, is a story based on a journey through Hell. The narrative begins with Dante straying off the path of life, into the forest of the underworld. As the journey goes on; Dante encounters his inspiration, and late Roman writer named Virgil. Dante must venture through the 9 “circles” of Hell, according to the sin committed in the mortal life. In every level, the bodies of sinners on earth are tortured. The severity of the punishments increase as Dante’s journey prolongs. The…

for the worst of sinners. In the comedy, The Divine Comedy, by Dante there are nine circles of Hell. The depiction Dante gives to Hell is a colder place. This differs a lot from John Milton’s book, Paradise Lost, where Hell is depicted as a fiery inferno with darkness on all edges. Hell is a place of fiery death much like Milton’s depiction. This is because burning is more painful that freezing and the Bible depicts that Hell is a fiery place. In the book, Paradise Lost by John Milton, an…

Allusions of Dante’s Inferno The vision of three different views in Dante’s The Inferno that shows the allusions people will make once read and thoroughly interpreted. The mythology allusion is made various times in the poem acknowledging the gods are always helping their people. The Biblical allusion is also seen in this poem with many references noted towards God. The final allusion made fairly often throughout the poem is an historical allusion seen to resembling previous dates. These three…