... ignorance, chews the head of Brutus, who stabbed his best friend, Julius Caesar, in the back (Durant, 1073). Dante and Virgil make their way past Satan and out of hell. After hell they journey to Mount Purgatory. Mount Purgatory is pictured as a mountain divided into nine levels and seven terraces. The ... begin their journey of repentance. The mountain itself was composed of seven concentric ledges separated by steep cliffs. On each ledge, one of the seven capital sins waited on a soul. They were composed of Pride, Envy, Wrath Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony, and Lust. When the soul had releas...

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... Lais Marie's women are shown to have character and grace. Canto V of Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno, takes the reader to the first compartment of true hell, residence for those whose sins have earned them eternal damnation. Dante's cranes symbolize lovers of the highest order, lovers who have died in the name of and for the very essence of love. These characters ... constitutes this type of relationship is very different. Dante often references mythical or ancient stories of tragic lovers, as if to reinforce the message that they who don't remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. S...

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