Dante's Accomplishments

Dante's journey is more for self enlightenment in comparison to other great epics, such as Beowulf. Although Dante does not realize it, he is there to improve himself. During this trip, he feels pity for the sinners in the levels of Hell and often faints because of the awful treatment they are being subjected to. He eventually feels compassion for the sinners and realizes that Hell is a place that you would not want to be in. He then goes back to the normal world wanting to tell everyone to change the way they live so they do not end up in Hell, like he experienced on the

Dante’s inferno is a comedy where the main characters are Dante and Virgil. Dante is a pro-famous writer and also a poet. We see Virgil as Dante’s idol and also a Roman Poet. In accordance to the comedy, Dante wanders as he goes off the right and straight path related to the moral truth and then he ends up getting lost in the dark. When he is about to get attacked by three beasts, Virgil rescues him. Virgil claim to have been sent from heaven by the head honchos in Heaven by the name Virgin Mary and also the Santa Lucia. They felt sorry for Dante an asked Dante’s deceased love; Beatrice to send him a helper. Virgil was sent to rescue him but also he decided to take him through his expedition through hell, (Dante)

Biography

The title of this book is Dante’s Inferno and is written by Dante Alighieri. Dante’s Inferno was first published in 1317 and fits into the genre of an epic poem. The setting of this story is mostly hell in the year 1300. The author of this poem has a very moral tone. The two most prominent characters in this poem are Dante and Virgil. Dante is the author and protagonist of the story. Dante, the author, wrote Dante’s Inferno based on events that actually happened in his life, however, the author Dante and the character Dante are portrayed very differently. The author chose to put the sinners in hell as the character sees the sinners and has sympathy for them. Throughout the story we see Dante slowly giving up his sympathy for the sinners and just seeing their punishment as justice. The physical appearance of Dante is never stated, but personally I like to imagine Dante as a slender but fit man, about average height. Virgil is Dante’s guide through hell and one of the other most

Dante Degli Alighieri, born in Florence, Italy, in 1265 CE, was a prominent Italian poet and author. Dante, a successor of the Guelph lineage, began pursuing studies such as theology, philosophy, and the texts of Latin poets at an early age with the help of his mentor Brunetto Latini (Bowden 3). Dante later became increasingly more involved in Florence’s political system which was centered around the constant strife between two families, the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, by joining the military and eventually acquiring a variety of different political positions in Florence (Musa 16). However, the Black Guelphs eventually exiled Dante, who identified as a White Guelph, after they took over the city and he became politically unfavorable among the people of Florence. Despite this, it was during Dante’s exile

Dante has been through the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and most of Paradiso when he meets his great, great grandfather, Cacciaguida, and has a conversation about Dante’s future. In this discussion, Cacciaguida reveals to Dante that he will be exiled by his hometown Florence and sent to live on the streets,

In Dante’s Alighieri the Inferno translated by John Ciardi is a journey of Dante and his guide Virgil through hell. During the 12th century sin was against God and the church, not the King anymore. The Roman Catholic Church was extremely important at this time. Dante goes on his journey through hell leads to insight on his political views of religion at the time. This book is significant because Dante was going against what everyone believed and the King. His actions and beliefs we looked down upon. While wandering through hell Dante describes each level of and why the souls of these people were in this circle because of their similar sins they committed. As Virgil and Dante traveled farther down into hell the punishments for the sins drastically worsened because the sin was worse. If God says a sin is a sin can one be worse than the other? Through Dante’s journey he describes what hell is and how that journey affected him, what the Bible says about

From 1265­1321 lived a great philosopher, scholar, and poet who was born in Florence Italy. This man was Dante Alighieri. Dante didn't only write The Inferno, but he also wrote The Divine Comedy which was an epic poem that described a Christian's point of view on mankind's fate. The epic

In Dante’s Inferno, the protagonist Dante strays off the Path of True Way and journeys through Hell. Alongside him is his guide Virgil. As Dante travels through all nine circles of Hell, he sees suffering souls and important figures in his time wandering aimlessly and enduring agonizing torture. This journey through Hell makes for a good story; however, Dante’s excursion symbolizes a more in-depth concept.

Dante Alighieri had a family of six, his wife, Gemma di Manetto Donati, his four sons, Jacopo Alighieri, Pietro Alighieri, Giovanni Alighieri, Gabrielle Alighieri, and his daughter, Antonia Alighieri. When Dante was nine, he met the love of his life, her name was Beatrice di Folco Portinari although, she had

Dante Alighieri is one of the most influential poets during the renaissance era. Whenever you think about hell or heaven then you’re thinking about the vision that Dante created. Dante was an Italian poet but also produced Latin poetry, he was exiled from Florence for exiling other rivals. Dante published

Dante’s Inferno Dante’s Inferno is considered one of the most magnificent classics of Western literature. His journey traveled through the nine circles of hell and began during the week of Easter in the 1300s. After meeting his guide (Virgil), the prominent Roman poet, the two began their pilgrimage

As Christianity came into play, literature, music, and art all changed. The “journey of the hero” was changed. The character that would have been known as the warrior in earlier times was now known as a lover. Instead of the hero being public, he was now a private person. In the texts, private events were the main part of the stories rather than huge historical events. The poetry was more lyrical in ways that it expressed emotions that were not expressed from earlier works. The new works were also more written in first person, rather than third person as in earlier ones. Finally, instead of the literature being a story of history, it became more of an autobiography of the author. The works such as “La Vita Nuova” was an autobiography of Dante.

The year is 1302, Dante Alighieri is absent from his role as one of the six supreme magistrates. Prior to that he had an extremely successful political career who had no problem exerting his power. Dante considered himself “a moderate White, he found it necessary during the two-month term to join in banishing his brother-in-law, Corso Donati, and his "first friend," Guido Cavalcanti, as ringleaders respectively of the Blacks and Whites.” Blacks and Whites were faction groups who had ongoing fights in the streets of Florence. This is an extremely admirable trait of a great ruler and/or ruler, the ability to at any moment turn on friends or family in order to uphold the city or government. This is comparable to the pride Greeks had in their respective

Dante 's Inferno is just one of three parts of an epic poem, written by Italian politician Dante Alighieri, known as The Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy 's three parts are known as Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio. In short, this poem describes Dante 's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. This was written in the fourteenth century in Florence during an era of extreme political corruption. Not surprisingly then does Dante put his enemies, corrupt politicians, in Hell. Inferno begins by following Dante as he falls from his path of moral truth. Sin has obstructed his path to God.