The first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy, also known as Inferno, tells about the spiritual pilgrimage of Dante from Hell to Purgatory (Fiero 148). ... Alighieri opted to write Inferno as vernacular literature in order to address and apply its message of conflicting moralities to a wider audience, of and from medieval Italy, and to the world today. ... The poets encounter the four great poets of Dante's time-Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan-and welcomed Dante as part of the group (Alighieri III. 88-102). ... Virgil identifies the many historical figures swept toget...

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Dante Alighieri's own opinion was also shaped by the environment around him and political corruption. For Dante Alighieri, to be a traitor like Judas or Brutus was the worst sin of all. ... Dante's Inferno above all reflects the thoughts of the author and the social, as well as the political beliefs and structure at the time in Florence, Italy. ... Indeed, I find it funny that Dante Alighieri took tremendous pride in describing this scene while Dante the Pilgrim at first claimed it was impossible to ever put into words. Dante Alighieri saw Mohammed as one of the chief sinners resp...

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In the epic "Dante's Inferno," " by Dante Alighieri, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Dante Alighieri's epic confronts the reader and audience with a sense of violence, portrayed like no other. ... This punishment shows one way in which Dante Alighieri made no scene of violence exist for its own sake. ... This is another example of how Dante Alighieri's acts of violence always had a reason or symbol behind them. ... In the epic Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. ...

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Dante Alighieri wrote a major work known as the Commedia that consisted of three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. ... In the Inferno, Dante learns that God's punishment is just, God's power is divine, and God's reign is eternal. ... The deeper Dante and Virgil go into Hell, the worse the sins are. ... In every level of hell Dante asks the sinners to tell them their story so Dante can tell their story to the people who are still alive. ... God's just punishment, divine power, and never-ending reign are major things Dante learns while he is in the Inferno because ...

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Augustine's Confessions and Dante Alighieri's Inferno are both stories about lost men on a journey to find salvation and God's grace in heaven. ... In Inferno, Dante goes through many battles while facing sin and temptation as he goes through the three divisions of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso. ... Dante's Inferno is also full of allegory and is all-together a learning process of Dante's life. ... " (Alighieri, 1.1-3) Dante knows that he has been lost throughout his life. ... " (Alighieri, 1.140) The seven deadly sins are all represented as Dante goes t...

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In particular, Virgil's Aeneid was the most influential in my reading of Dante Alighieri's Inferno. During the course of reading Dante's Inferno, I quickly began to notice similarities and parallels with Virgil's Aeneid. ... The narrator in Inferno (Dante) recounts on his fearful journey through hell in search of salvation (Heaven). By realizing the significance of epic poetry in Aeneid, I was able to better understand the purpose of Dante's journey in Inferno. ... In the poem Inferno, the spirit refers to Dante's departed wife, Beatrice whom is in heaven. ...

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Dante Alighieri, one of the most respected poets of all time, accomplished many things during his life; with his crowning achievement being the invention of the fourfold analysis method. ... One specific group that is particularly apt for analysis is who were treacherous to kin, located in the first layer of circle nine in the Inferno. ... Another explanation for Dante the poet's harsh judgment toward those who betrayed their families is that the politics of Dante's time were heavily rooted in bloodlines. ... Ciardi comments on this in his notes in "The Inferno," mentioning that tha...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Beatrice dies prematurely at the young age of twenty-five, and this inspires Alighieri to write Inferno. Inferno is a story about Dante's a brief period in his life when he lost sight of his moral principles, and turns to his faith in order to get him back on the correct path. ... Education becomes the primary element in all aspects of Stephen's life, and it helps guide him, as does Virgil in Dante's Inferno. ... In The Inferno, Virgil guides Dante through hell in order to ...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Beatrice dies prematurely at the young age of twenty-five, and this inspires Alighieri to write Inferno. Inferno is a story about Dante's a brief period in his life when he lost sight of his moral principles, and turns to his faith in order to get him back on the correct path. ... Education becomes the primary element in all aspects of Stephen's life, and it helps guide him, as does Virgil in Dante's Inferno. ... In The Inferno, Virgil guides Dante through hell in order to ...

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In "The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno," Dante often uses love and romance as a theme to convey his message of Hell in The Inferno. The Inferno is epic that is about a telling of Dante through his Journey throughout Hell while being guided by Virgil. ... Love plays a important aspect in "The Inferno" because without it, Dante wouldn't have been able to complete his journey without his guide who was sent by Beatrice. ... In "The Inferno," Lust is the second circle of Hell which Dante encounters and it has people being punished by being blown back an...

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Everyman Dante's Inferno and Everyman clearly have certain similarities and certain differences in their main characters and themes. ... In Inferno, Dante suddenly wakes up in the dark woods and knows he must get out of them. ... In Inferno, Virgil, a personification of Dante's human reason, shows him that he needs to escape the sinful lifestyle he is in. ... Works Cited Alighieri. Inferno. ...

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In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Dante depicts himself as a pilgrim who undertakes a journey to hell and back. ... A recurring theme that is prevalent in the Inferno is the role of Dante the Poet and Dante the Pilgrim. ... Dante the poet makes Dante the pilgrim faint after hearing about Francesca's story. ... Not only does Dante use stories to sway the emotions of characters in the Inferno, he also reaches out to the reader with these stories, which have had an enormous impact on our society to the point where people still read his stories centuries later. Even today, the story of Franc...

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Inferno (Italian for "hell"), is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "The Divine Comedy." ... It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. ... Allegorically, "Divine Comedy"  represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. ... Virgil then guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell. ... Allegorically, the Inferno represents the Christian soul seeing sin for what it really is. ...

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Perception of Life After Death in Literature: Dante's "Inferno " Life after death is an interesting and important topic considered by people of different age and religious perceptions. This topic can be found in many forms of literature, one key example is the literary work written by Dante Alighieri named "Inferno ", which is translated from Italian as "hell"." ... With the help of "Inferno,"" Dante wanted to show the principles of virtue for people and the appropriate laws of living in the world. Alighieri and Lombardo (2009) stated that this poem "motivates every moment of our lives i...

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Dante Alighieri is most well known for his work, The Divine Comedy. ... Dante was born into a Guelf family. ... Dante's dream was to return to Florence. ... It is divided into three sections, named the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso (Paradise). ... Then after Dante traveled with him, Dante would meet up with another guide who would take him to paradise. ...

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Suspiria does not have a central theme or strong story line, but in some ways, the amount of gory detail in the death scenes, the ways in which the characters are murdered and the evilness of the "monsters " in this film parallel characters and scenes from Dante Alighieri's Inferno. ... Each person that is murdered in the movie dies in an excruciating way, similar to the way the souls are tortured in the Inferno. ... Although her gruesome, torturous murder does not tie specifically to a circle in Dante's Inferno, her swaying dead body reminds me of the tortured souls in the second ci...

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The next author to give me an insight on Italy was Dante". The book I read by Dante" was called the Inferno. The Inferno is more than just a fictional story about someone traveling through the universe. It is actually more like an autobiographical journey of life through its author, Dante Alighieri's eyes. ... Dante's Inferno was a good representation of the times in which he lived and an insight on Dante himself. ...

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Ranging from the dictatorial King Creon in Sophocles" "Antigone" to the Eighth circle of falsifiers in Dante Alighieri's "Inferno" to More's resistance against King Henry VIII in "A Man For All Seasons". ... In "The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, there were several circles in hell that were designated for different categories of sinners. ...

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If this were true it would mean that Christianity is the only religion that has any truth behind it since this concept of Hell in Christianity states that all other people who are not Christian are heretics in the eyes of their God; the concept of Hell in The Inferno is the same Hell in the Christian bible. ... "As soon as Dante's strength returns, the Poets begin to cross the FIRST CIRCLE. ... (Alighieri, 49) Many companies have been under the spotlight in our time such as Enron for financial fraud. ... So in the era in which The Inferno was written, sin and Hell were the system, which g...

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