Works by Dante Alighieri

general culture, you know the poem that Dante Alighieri write in 1307 become a masterpiece and now, 709 years after, musicians, poets, writers, artist and even in modern things like video games, still making references to it. How can they talk about something so complex like Dante’s poem in culture today? People have a great variety of options to refer to Dante and his poem. Society creates a word for this, Dantean that means “relating to, or suggestive of Dante or his writings” (Merriam-Webster…

though he doesn’t know how to swim. A boy called Dante teaches Aristotle how to swim. Their friendship cemented when they realize they were both named after ancient philosophers. Both of these boys are american-mexican and while Dante’s teaching Ari how to swim, Ari is teaching Dante how to except himself. Aristotle and Dante quickly become good friends though Dante is shocked over the openness of Dante’s family. Both boys are inquisitive and Dante once proclaims that “One day, I’m going to…

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 Inferno. By witnessing these flaws, Dante learns that all sins originate from love and want and that while…

where Charon, after a bit of hesitation, takes them across to the other side. On this side, there is an earthquake which causes Dante, the pilgrim, to faint. In this canto, Dante takes us through the pilgrim's journey of education through hell's entrance by the usage of irony and by the expression of fear and courage. When arriving at the gate of hell, the first thing Dante sees is the inscription on the gate, which reads, Through me you pass into 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…

In my opinion, I believe that Dante would have chosen Gustave Doré because Doré’s illustrations match the way Dante intended the reader to view the story. Doré’s drawings are very dark, and represent the way hell is described in the Inferno. The way Dante describes his journey through hell, whether it be the creatures he comes across, or the way the sinner is being punished, is very vivid and dark, much like Doré’s illustrations. Dante’s reasoning for writing the Inferno, in my opinion, is to…

dante’s smirk is rightfully devilish; complementing his own that curves up on his lips far better. the expression remained until he witnesses the front of his pants get yanked apart; button awol, zipper torn but he has no time to respond to the insincerity of his words. the only reply is a hiss through grinding teeth and the creak of wood between tightening fingers. an eagerness couldn’t be contained with those lips pressed against his stiffening cock; that tongue. the upwards motion is enough…

The Guelphs and Ghibellines were two different political parties in Italy and Germany during the Middle Ages. Guelph is derived from “Welf”, a dynasty of Bavarian German dukes who competed for the imperial throne in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Ghibelline is derived from Waiblingen, the Swabian Hohenstaufen dukes who were the Guelphs’ opponents. The Guelph party was sympathetic towards the papacy and the Ghibelline party was sympathetic towards the Holy Roman Emperor. The animosity…

The Inferno: Where all Dreams Come True The fictional classic, The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is where all spirits recieved their biggest desires. This is evident wehn focusing on how the souls’ punishments correspond with exactly what they wanted in life. Examples of this include the heretics being placed ina tomb, suicides not recieving a body, and the wrathful fighting. In the Carnal Dante and Virgil met the souls of Francisca and Paolo. These souls were placed in Hell because they…

In The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante shows how reading matters in life. There are many reasons of why Dante wrote The Divine Comedy one of them is for literacy purposes. He wrote the comedy in Tuscan Italian instead of Latin; even though, Italian had not been standardized into one language yet. Dante’s Comedy was one of the Italian writing and it became the language that all educated could understand and study. He may have written the comedy for revenge as many think, but in my opinion he wrote…