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Annotated Bibliography
Alighieri, Dante. "The Divine Comedy, Volume I: Inferno, trans. Mark Musa." New York: Penguin Classics, 2003.
Translator Mark Musa provides a blank verse translation of the first book of the Italian epic, Dante’s Comedia. The first book focuses on Dante’s descent into Hell, after becoming lost and confused a in a dark wood—a metaphor for Dante’s stumble from the path of the straight and narrow that leads to Heaven. Having fallen by the wayside, Dante is confronted by three beasts, whereupon aid arrives to guide Dante back to the straight and narrow thanks to Beatrice, who is watching over Dante from Heaven. However, it is a very circuitous route, and Dante can only get there by taking a course through Hell, the intention being that he should see what happens to souls who die in the state of mortal sin: they spend eternity suffering in Hell.
To guide Dante on his tour of Hell, which is composed of 9 concentric circles or rings, is the Roman pagan poet Virgil. Virgil lives in the first circle of Hell along with the other virtuous pagans who were not inherently evil or wicked but rather by having no knowledge of Christ were not permitted to obtain...
Their first circle is rather pleasant and the only suffering they experience is their sense of missing something grand above that haunts them and gives them no real rest. Virgil leads Dante downward into the rings of Hell, each ring being dedicated to a particular group of sinners, and the punishment for each sin is explicitly constructed to be associated with the sin in some way. So, for example, sexual sinners are punished by being buffeted by winds that blow them this way and that, which symbolizes the fact that in their life they were led around by their noses—i.e., by their desires and had no self control. Once Dante reaches the bottom of Hell, he encounters Satan who has three heads and is munching on the bodies of Brutus, Judas and Cassius—one being the betrayer of Christ and the other two being the betrayers of Caesar.
Peterson, Mark A. "Dante and the 3?sphere." American Journal of Physics 47.12 (1979): 1031-1035.
This article examines the cosmological shape of Dante’s universe from the standpoint of relativistic physics. The author posits that Dante uses a 3-sphere universe to create his cosmology, which would mean that Dante—far from being…
Introduction Dante’s Inferno, in essence, gives a vivid account of hell from the poet’s perspective. There are a wide range of lessons that could be learnt from this particular divine comedy. In this discussion, I concern myself with the greed circle. This fourth circle hosts those souls undergoing punishment for greed. Here, Dante and Virgil meet souls who are condemned to drag heavy loads from one place to another. The all
Dante's Inferno / Siddartha / City of Glass Discuss the role of process and travel in shaping the journey of the protagonists, comparing and contrasting at least two of the texts we have read. In both Dante's Inferno and Hesse's Siddhartha, the process of finding the way to get onto the "path of Truth" as well as the journey to that Path are central to the stories. Religious doctrines mostly pretend to
Dante One of the great ironies of Dante's Inferno is the centrality of earth-bound fame, moral reputation, praise and blame. The importance of reputation would seem to contradict Virgil's efforts in leading Dante through Purgatory to impart a more meaningful moral message. Yet it is important to remember that Dante travels alive; Virgil's lessons are instructive in a direct and practical manner. Dante ascertains life lessons from those he encounters in
Dante's Inferno: Canto The canto is moving in that it depicts the passionate love of one for another and how, even once killed, both will stay together for eternity. No wonder that this canto and the love of Francesca for Paolo have remained a favorite of classical artists. And yet I am left with confused conclusions regarding what Dante wants to convey. On the one hand, he puts the lovers
Dante and Beatrice An Analysis of the Relationship of Beatrice to Dante Dante describes his meeting with Beatrice at an early age and in La Vita Nuova (The New Life) discusses and poeticizes the love he instantly held for her. Beatrice becomes for Dante a gate to the divine love that he examines in La Comedia, today referred to as The Divine Comedy. This paper will analyze the relationship between Dante and
Dante's Inferno And Manzoni's The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni's only novel The Betrothed is a national institution in Italy and second in popularity in this history of Italian literature only to Dante's Divine Comedy. He was a liberal nationalist from an aristocratic family and a leading supporter of the reunification (Risorgimento) of Italy. His novel is set in Lombardy in 1628-31 and was in fact a call for liberation from foreign rule,