Works by Dante Alighieri

The essence of cruelty presents itself very blatantly in Mary Shelley’s horror novel Frankenstein through the works of two major characters: Victor Frankenstein and his very own creation. Frankenstein tells the story of a lost creature abandoned by his creator, shunned from society, and abhorred for his very own existence. Through these acts of cruelty committed against him, the creature truly becomes a monster and begins his journey of vengeance in the destruction of his creator and all else…

I am reading Dan Brown’s Inferno, and I am on page 567. This book is about the American Harvard professor Robert Langdon while he is on a journey of mystery, ancient symbols, and the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. In this journal I will be evaluating and explaining. In this novel the author, Dan Brown, uses irony. This book is the last in a small trilogy and throughout the other two books the main character has relied mainly on his semi-identic memory but in this one he cannot recall the…

introduced humanism to the Renaissance and were influenced by the late medieval writer and poet Dante Alighieri. Dante was best known for writing “The Divine Comedy”, which is a trilogy of poems that take you on a journey through the three layers of the afterlife:…

Durante Alighieri, also known as Dante (meaning “he who gives” ) was born in Florence on May, 1265. He was born into a family with small nobility and a history of involvement in Florence complex political scene. His mother, Bella degli Abbati, came from a family of wealthy landowners but died a few years later after his birth. His father, Alighiero di Bellincione, whom Dante seemed to have avoid mentioning as much as possible, soon remarried with Lapa di Chiarissimo Cialuffi. His father made…

ever read a book that changed everyone's opinion on the world? People begin to think and question the original beliefs they were taught. Society has begun to reflect on these new ideas through everything that they do. After reading Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, people will have a different outlook on afterlife, and begin to express these new beliefs through architecture and art. Many of society’s views of afterlife have changed after Inferno’s publication. Based on Inferno, some people began to…

significant amount of differences between Dante's image of Satan (for example, the three-faced, silent being stuck in ice) and more usual images of Satan (for example, the pitchfork-wielding devil in fire). I choose this topic because I thought the way Dante portrays Satan in Dante’s Inferno was a very interesting and different way than the way Christians and other modern religions portray him. There have many papers and articles written about this that have changed my perspective of looking at…

Petrarch was a poet and a scholar who set up the renaissance era with his humanist philosophy. He was a devoted man who is considered the “Father of Humanism.” He is also considered the father of what is now the modern Italian language. He was also a poet, who wrote almost solely about his love, Laura. Born on July 20th, 1304, Petrarch started studying law because he father wanted him to. This was of course not his passion but could not refuse his father. Once his father died in 1326 he pursued…

sees Dido as a notable queen who to her misfortune, becomes a puppet to the insatiable Gods . On the other hand, Dante Alighieri depicts Queen Dido as nothing but a treacherous creature. Within Dante’s Inferno, more importance is given to Dido’s lustful facet than to the fact that she commits suicide, and should therefore, be in the seventh circle of hell. Though Virgil and Alighieri existed in different time periods, both authors made queen Dido the embodiment of women as a whole: a…

What happens when a person is not satisfied with what they have? What is a person willing to do in order to receive wealth and fortune? Is it worth dropping all morals and ethics? This virus that affects and harms many is otherwise known as greed. Greed is defined as an intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. Examples of this can even be found in today's society. One example is a person taking all the cookies in his house for himself, even though he knew…

Despite the fact that many of Petrarch’s works were written in Latin, his sonnets and canzoni were written in the vernacular. His most popular work is the “Canzoniere”. Petrarch’s “Canzoniere” was a collection of 366 poems and 317 were in sonnet form. He was an early practitioner of the form and thus he influenced many later poets and helped to popularize the form and the vernacular. Through his work, Petrarch established a canonical poetic language as well as a conventional…