... Dante A.P. English August 26, 2003 In the beginning of The Inferno of Dante, by Robert Pinsky, Dante builds a great deal of tension between the objective of God's justice, and Dante's human sympathy for the souls that he sees around him. As the story progresses, however, the character becomes less and ... violent toward God, and then Dante sees a comrade, Brunetto Latini. Latini is pacing amidst the crowd of souls who were violent toward nature. He is committed to walk on the burning desolate sand. Thinking there was no one else they would meet, they run into Usurers, those who were vio...

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... from Hell to Purgatory (Fiero 148). The Roman poet Virgil, who guides Dante through hell, acts as the symbol of reason and studies the varieties of human sin (Sayre 441). As a matter of fact, the Inferno serves as criticism of his Italian contemporaries, some from history and legend from his era, marred by the severity of their sin (Sayre 441). Alighieri opted ... Dante's full attention (Alighieri IV. 73-75). Dante finds two of his Italian contemporaries, Francesca and Paola, punished together in hell for their adultery and calls to them to speak on their side of their story (Raffa). Sa...

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