Works by Dante Alighieri

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…

Throughout the course of The Count of Monte Cristo, the limitations of human justice versus the equity of divine justice are revealed as Dantes seeks revenge against Caderousse, Fernand, Villefort, and Danglars. In the beginning of his quest for revenge, upon receiving Abbe Faria’s fortune, which Dantes believes is due to divine intervention, Dantes views himself as an agent of Providence, believing he is acting out God’s will in punishing each of the conspirators; however, before he even…

Inferno (2nd half) The three beasts (the leopard, lion, and she-wolf) that threaten Dante in his quest to get to the sunlight all represent different types of sin. The leopard can be interpreted as a symbol of fraudulence, the lion as a symbol of pride, and the she-wolf as a symbol of greed. The leopard has few physical characteristics suggesting its interpretation as fraudulence, but the prideful lion has his "head held high”. The she-wolf is described as she “carries every craving in her…

In the novel The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, Edmond Dantes, an honorable and ingenuous man, falls victim to jealousy, selfishness and corruption. Set during the Napoleonic era of the 17th century, the villains, Caderousse, Fernand, Villefort and Danglars, all contribute to falsely sentence Dantes to spend his life in the Châtea D’If. After sixteen years in jail, Dantes escapes and rightly seeks revenge on those who wronged him. Since his vengeance directly targets his enemies’…

Dante was going shopping for his very first suit. His mom had gone back to college when Dante was six and now she was graduating. The only thing she had asked for was for Dante to be at the ceremony in a brand new suit. He was so proud of her that he wanted the day to be perfect. Dante's cousin, Jared, picked him up first thing Saturday morning. They drove into downtown and parked right outside of W.J. Simms Clothiers. The windows were adorned with mannequins dressed in all varieties of suits…

It is a nice fall evening and Dante was heading home after a day of work when suddenly there is a loud boom, then the sky turned blood red and clouds became alarmingly dark. Out of nowhere his car stopped and when it did you could hear the screams of people. When he turned around he saw it the portal spitting out demon like creatures. Then he realizes that they are actually demons and starts running home. When he gets home he sees a gruesome murder scene. he sees his wife and two children dead…

to lose ourselves into the desire of temporary fulfillment against our own reason. In Dante's Inferno, Dante discusses the circles of Hell and the sinners that must face eternal condemnation there. The way they lived on Earth determines the condition of their souls. Throughout this story, Dante uses vivid imagery to depict the severity and consequences of sins. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri shows us how the sinners face harsh punishments as the price they have to pay for selling away…

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 elucidates on how the religious…

support the rule of the Church in the early fourteenth century. Love enters into most of the poetic expressions of the era, but religion and human concepts of good and evil are also presented. Dante perceived love from his own experiences with his beloved Beatrice, whom he loved since childhood. Dante also invoked comparisons with ancient Greek mythology characters and even walked with them in La Divina Commedia. When the description of Inferno was…

of laws and punishments during the reign of the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. The code is regarded as a moral and fair set of laws that is also the oldest collection of codified law to ever exist. Throughout the Inferno, it is clear that Dante Alighieri reiterates the theme of “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” in his interpretation of hell, only retold by an Italian late Dark Age writer, and The Inferno is a supplementary piece to the concepts Hammurabi tried to impose almost 3,000…