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Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written over a 13 year period by Dante Alighieri. The story was written in three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
402 Questions
Who are the personalities in Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante?
See http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm# although maybe not everybody is correctly recognised.
Is Dante Alighieri's the Divine Comedy and Inferno the same thing?
Yes and no. The Inferno is the first poem in the divine comedy. The Divine comedy itself consists of 1. The Inferno 2. Purgatory 3. Paradise
Why does Dante use the holy trinity in the inferno?
Simply put, he doesn't.
If you look closely Inferno is the only part of the Comedy which does not have 33 cantos but instead 34.
On a related note Virgil never mentions God's name in the unholy land.
It was in Italian unlike the others which were in Latin.
What were the 7 circles of hell in Dante's Inferno?
The first circle was limbo, the second held those who succumbed to lust, the third to gluttony, the fourth to greed, the fifth to wrath, the sixth to heresy, to seventh to violence, the eighth to fraud and the ninth to treachery (traitors!).
Is there going to be a Dante's Inferno 2?
yes, because at the end of first part is wroten to be continiued
What level of hell in Dante's inferno do those who commit crimes against God go?
they go to the 7th layer of hell along with those against nature, acording to dante in dante's inferno.
What sinner suffers the most in Dante's Inferno?
Judas Iscariot. He is stuck head-first into Satan's mouth for betraying Jesus Christ.
Dante's Inferno is a book about the rings of Hell. It describes how happens to people in the different rings. It was more of a philosophy than any thing else.
What Dante influenced him to write the divine comedy?
The Catholic religion., his love for Beatrice, and Italian politics of the time (esp. the clash between the Guelph and Ghibertine factions), as well as literature generally, as exemplified by the poet Virgil.
Which scene from the Inferno do both Gustave Dor and and William Blake depict?
Virgil and Dante's confrontation with demons
Demons threatening to attack Virgil and Dante
Where in hell does Virgil live Dante's Inferno?
Virgil was before the time of Christ and didn't have the required faith, so he was forever trapped in Limbo.
What are the rivers in Hell and how are they crossed Dante's Inferno?
Acheron - the river of woe Cocytus - the river of lamentation; Phlegethon - the river of fire; Lethe - the river of forgetfulness; Styx - the river of hate. Source: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/styx_river.html
In the divine comedy story why did Dante commits suicide?
Um, he doesn't. Not sure where you got the idea he did . . .
yes
Who was the writer of the divine comedy?
Dante Alighieri. He wrote them while he was exiled from Florence. Circa 1307 to 1321.
Which was written first The Divine Comedy or Canterbury Tales?
Dante probably began writing the Divine Comedy in 1308. He decided to call it a day in 1321 (when he died).
Chaucer was probably born around 1340, and seems likely to have begun work on the Canterbury Tales around 1380. Chaucer never completed The Canterbury Tales (the work we have is probably rather less than a quarter of its intended final size), so it doesn't have a meaningful end date.
The Canterbury Tales is more than two generations later than The Divine Comedy.
The Canterbury Tales is roughly contemporary with Giovanni Bocaccio's Decameron, though whether Chaucer was aware of Bocaccio's work is something scholars debate incessantly.
How is the Divine Comedy important in history?
The Divine Comedy by Dante was important because he wrote this great poem in Italian.
What has the author pious and learned divine Fat written?
pious and learned divine Fat has written:
'The Churches victory' -- subject(s): Great Britain Civil War, 1642-1649, History, Presbyterianism
What is canto 23 of Dante's Inferno about?
Virgil leads Dante into a second ring of the seventh circle of hell. This is where people who commit suicide or are violent against themselves are punished. Dante and Virgil are in a forest or woods with many trees. The scene is very ominous and there is moaning in the air. Dante does not know what this is and Virgil tells Dante to break a twig of a tree. When Dante does this, the tree moans and blood flows from the tree like blood flows from a human when he or she is hurt.
Virgil then explains about how Minos places them in this circle for being violent against themselves.
Why was the divine comedy widely read?
Because it dealt with Christianity. In the epic, Dante was the first person to ever be guided through all 3 stages of the afterlife, and then wrote a book about it.
Side-by-side images of Blake and Doré's depictions of the same scene from the Inferno, displayed in slideshow software
