Works by Dante Alighieri

Although Petrarch was the “father” of Humanism, Dante included characteristics of humanism in his works during the Middle Ages. Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy provides little hints of the Renaissance and humanistic views in Florence during the 1300s. Humanism was viewed as humans in the center of the universe. It also involved a rediscovery of the classics of ancient Greek and Roman writings. Dante Alighieri’s ideas about Humanism influenced later…

in Aquinas’ writings connects both grace and nature, while separating him from other philosophers. Through Aquinas’ writings Dante created his divine comedies to emulate the relationship between nature and grace presented by Aquinas. About 40 years after the birth of St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in the year 1265 A.D. ( Dante 1) Throughout this famous poet’s tales, it is evident that there are underlying theme of nature and grace. The…

Dante was a part of the nobility in Florence who weren’t wealthy, was schooled in the scholastic culture, and studied ancient texts. During this time, Aristotle was the preferred ancient philosopher, and Aristotelian ideals can be seen throughout Dante’s work. He, like Machiavelli, lived in a turbulent time. In Dante’s lifetime, there was famine and power struggle. Dante was exiled because of the conflict between the White Guelphs and…

hope for willing hearts and wiser minds to turn, change and live. Dante the Pilgrim stands in Purgatory and describes the empty shades, who realize he truly lives: “Those souls who noticed that my body breathed, and realized that I was still alive, in their amazement turned a deathly pale” (Alighieri 1725). In this place live people who are empty shadows, pale in color and only partly alive. The readers of Cervantes, Troyes and Alighieri still have stories with lines still to be written. Antonio…

Dante: The Journey And The Mission- How Did The Author Make Use of Females In The Divine Comedy? When studying Dante’s Divine Comedy, it is easy to dismiss the significance and presence of women throughout, due to the domination of men and male characters. It is, however, important to note the significance of women and, in particular, the chosen historical figures the author uses to portray his view of women in general. Female figures are present throughout the three canticles of Inferno,…

Through the works of Dante Alighieri, he provided insight as 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…

DeVaney-Lovinguth World Literature I 3 May 2016 Dante’s Inferno Dante Alighieri is the author of The Divine Comedy, which is considered as a literary epic scale. This is characterized among the central texts that have been presumed from the Western literature and it is described as the unique and largest poem during the middle ages. Dante is considered as an activist, writer, and theologian who were born around 1625 in Florence and his literary works have always been used over the years in…

two different works. The first work will be Dante’s Inferno. Inferno is one of three books in the Divine Comedy trilogy written by Dante Alighieri. Inferno focus’ on Dante's journey through Inferno (a.k.a. Hell). The second work will be American Horror Story: Roanoke. AHS (American Horror Story) is a anthology tv series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. We will be focusing on season six of AHS. Roanoke is the title of season six because it centers around the ghosts…

critiques in a comical way. A great work of satire in the 17th century is called "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. In which he wrote a solution to Irelands problem with poverty, by suggesting that they eat the children of the streets and create gloves out of their skin. Swift wrote most of his work anonymously in fear of being exiled from his country. The work…

Project. Considered from the perspective of the established Western Canon, Eliot’s elevation of Dante and Shakespeare is both appropriate and institutionally recognized, and when we add to these two the works of Homer, we have, arguably, a literary trinity, the significance of which was not lost on Joyce, and for which we must credit all that Joyce wrote. This essay focuses on the particular influence of Dante upon the writing of Joyce, narrowed specifically on the fifteen short-story…