Works by Dante Alighieri

In reading Dante's works, a thoughtful reader can easily understand how deeply the poet felt the social role of the artist and how deeply he felt involved in the political-philosophical debate of his century. Consequently, it is known that both, Dante's literary style and his political thought greatly influenced the works of other authors during several centuries up to the present day. If it is true that Dante's popularity is due to all his works, it is also true that Dante acquired a huge…

sources that believe in nothingness. Many traditional sources are Christian concepts of a place for people who have done wrong to be tortured. These ideas have become ingrained in our society and belief systems, and that shows through heavily in Sartre’s work, No Exit, through the characters and the actual reality portrayed in the play. The voices of history and tradition are prominent in No Exit, and this is made clear from the beginning, through the expectations of the characters. In his…

Dante is one of the most known Medieval authors, who published relevant works able to show how deeply he felt the social role of the artist and how he was involved in the political and philosophical debate of his century, so that his political/philosophical thought, throughout the centuries, has been subjected to various metamorphosis, which are strongly connected with the political and ideological situations of the historical momentum in which they occurred. This thesis aims to discover the…

The epic progresses as Dante continues to weep and feel pity for the souls in the 4th circle admonished for their greed. Dante, upon witnessing the torture of these souls feels physical pain out of empathy, "And I, who felt my heart almost pierced through…" Dante even deigns to make a moral judgement about the tortures of hell and God's ability to serve justice, "Justice of God! Who has amassed as many strange tortures as I have seen?" This questioning of God's will and judgement shows more…

The Count of Monte Cristo, formerly known as Edmond Dantes, is a very significant character in the novel. After spending fourteen long years in the Chateau d’If, he is set on getting revenge on those that wronged him. In the beginning of the novel, Edmond is seen as a friendly, humble yet naïve young man who is eager to embark on his future. Dantes confesses early in the story, “I’m only nineteen…and I know very little. I wasn’t destined to play any important role in life. Anything I am and…

Comedy, Dante's Inferno, Dante takes a horrific journey through the Inferno. Throughout his journey, he enters, he discovers that hell is split up into many levels, the bottom where Satan resides. In these circles, he witnesses many people in pain who are being punished for their sins that they committed on earth. Each person's punishment is based on their crimes they have committed, but without all the allusions and justifications they had in their earthly lives. Dante encounters many people…

Alighieri shows hostility towards Filippo Argenti, who was a Black Guelph and Alighieri’s political enemy, through Dante’s diction and reaction. Upon encountering Argenti while crossing the Styx, Dante asks who the sinner is, “But you, who are you, so fallen and so foul?’” (VIII, 35). Alighieri purposely chooses words with demoralizing connotations like fallen, which means degrading and immoral, and foul, which implies grossly offensive in a moral sense, to address his enemy, showing how much he…

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri was written in the 14th century. The epic was originally written in Italian, and over the course of time multiple translations were made, which led to multiple versions of the original text. This essay compares and contrasts the translations of Robert Pinsky(1994) and Lawrence Binyon(1933), and will focus on the opening. Although very similar, the two translations provide new perspectives through diction. The two translations provide an expansion on the original…

Similarly, Alighieri displays acrid loathing toward Bocca degli Abbati, a traitorous Florentine, through how Dante behaves and talks to the sinner himself. In Round Two of Circle Nine, where the Treacherous to Country are punished by being buried under ice up to their necks, Dante accidentally kicks Bocca in the head as he and his Master are walking across the frozen lake of Antenora, who yells up at Dante asking why he would want to cause him more pain. Alighieri wrote apathetically, “as I…

written by Dante Alighieri is the most notable epic poem produced during the Middle Ages. In the instance of the title the word comedy is taken from an Italian word defined as the prosperous ending after a difficult beginning. The Divine Comedy is a trilogy of poems the first being the Inferno, the story of Dante’s journey through hell. Two unique aspects of the Divine Comedy are that it was the first major epic to be written in Italian, rather than Latin, and the protagonist is Dante himself.…