Purgatorio

Anagni, where Boniface was seized and beaten by the order of the French King. This episode will be recalled by the posterity as the 'outrage of Anagni' and will be cited by Dante in the Divine Comedy "Past ill and future, lo! the flower-de-luce" (Purgatorio XX -…

Art can be divided into the mediums of which art can be displayed. Art can be visual like a movie or kinesthetic like games or interpretive dance. Text is another medium for art and text can be expressive like poetry or it can contain a plot through a story. Stories can be broken down by length, short stories would be considered short stories while long stories would be literature. A plot, substantial length, continuity and artistic writing all must be essential characteristics in writing of…

character in one of his poems. Such as Virgil, the ancient roman as his guide in Inferno ("Dante."). Beatrice, his love of his life also being a guide for him through heaven in Paradiso ("Dante."). Also, Virgil and Beatrice again are in the poem Purgatorio as a guide, where they climb and journey through The Mountain Purgatory ("Dante."). And then there is the poem The New Life where Dante expresses his love and thoughts about Beatrice and how she was such…

to how he interprets the seven deadly sins; a Christian concept. His use of the contrapasso throughout the Divine Comedy allows us to explore other meanings and causes to the sins. The sin; sloth, has an ironic punishment in Dante’s inferno and purgatorio, with an underlying reasoning of misguided love. While exploring other sources and authors interpretations of “sloth”, I have found that the explanation has changed and has been identified differently throughout the ages. I worked with the…

Canto VI of the Inferno lends itself well to the traditional format of a lectura Dantis, in which one canto is lifted from the context of the whole work, and considered as a single poetic entity. This canto is one of the shortest in the Comedy: only one other, Inferno XI, has as few as 115 lines. Canto VI can be regarded as a self-contained unit, since it holds the complete description of one circle of Hell, the third, where Gluttons are punished. The action of the canto is symmetrically framed…

During the time that Dante wrote The Divine Comedy, the Catholic Church was very corrupt led by popes that were more interested in making monetary gains rather than being spiritual leaders. One purpose of The Divine Comedy was to express disgust with the Church of the time and to suggest what the reformed Church should look like. One way Dante demonstrates that he intended to present a picture of the ideal Church is by making his final guide Saint Bernard, a “critic of the institutional church…

afterlife is not the type of topic to bring up when having a casual conversation. It falls under the same taboo topics as religion, and politics. So instead, Dante Aligheri decided to write a poem about his perceived vision of the afterlife: inferno, purgatorio, and paradisio. Dante wrote his Divine Comedy when the Church was both the governmental and religious leader of the people, thus a reader can expect Dante’s work to reflect the religious influences of the era. Canto 13 in Dante’s Inferno…

Christian afterlife to warn the corrupt society to steer itself to the path of righteousness. It follows his journey through levels of hell, purgatory, and finally heaven. The Roman poet, Virgil, guides him through hell (Inferno) and purgatory (Purgatorio), while his lost love, Beatrice, guides him through heaven (Paradiso). In Inferno, there are various types of sinners in their various states. There's nine circles of hell, each circle is reserved for those who committed different sins. Virgil…

Throughout the course of Cultural Perspectives, many texts and authors who have contributed to the Great Conversation have been discussed. Ultimately, each author is attempting to find his or her summum bonum or “highest good.” Although each author has a different definition of summum bonum, the majority agrees on the method required to attain the highest good: balance. Whether that balance be implicitly or explicitly accredited for the summum bonum differs for each author. Lao Tzu’s thoughts…

The Divine Comedy is a series of 3 books--Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--made up of 33 cantos each, that describes life after death in an allegorical manner. The Divine Comedy was written by Dante Alighieri, an Italian author from the 1300s. The protagonist of the Divine Comedy is Dante, an allegoric representation of the author himself used to portray the author’s views on Christianity and sin. Dante further uses his character to demonstrate humanity's flaws through his nine layers of the…