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Inferno, Canto I. For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Which in the very thought renews the fear. Speak will I of the other things I saw there. In which I had abandoned the true way. Which leadeth others right by every road. The night, which I had passed so piteously. Which never yet a living person left.
Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted c. 1530. The Divine Comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three cantiche (singular cantica) – Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso () – each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural canti).
Mar 28, 2024 · Dante's Inferno Summary. I nferno is a fourteenth-century epic poem by Dante Alighieri in which the poet and pilgrim Dante embarks on a spiritual journey. At the poem’s beginning, Dante is lost ...
May 29, 2024 · Virgil shows Dante the souls of the wrathful in the River Styx, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1861. The engraving depicts the fifth circle of Hell in canto VII of Inferno (The Divine Comedy). The poem begins with Dante at midlife—specifically, 35 years old—and lost inside a dark wood. He is guided by the Roman poet Virgil, who represents the ...
Full Title: The Divine Comedy ( The Inferno is the first of three sections of The Divine Comedy ) When Written: Early 1300s (exact date unclear) Where Written: Italy. When Published: Unclear, but at least by 1317. Literary Period: The (late) middle ages. Genre: Epic poem (written in an Italian rhyme scheme called terza rima ) Setting: Hell.
May 28, 2024 · Dante - Poet, Inferno, Purgatorio: Dante’s years of exile were years of difficult peregrinations from one place to another—as he himself repeatedly says, most effectively in Paradiso [XVII], in Cacciaguida’s moving lamentation that “bitter is the taste of another man’s bread and…heavy the way up and down another man’s stair.” Throughout his exile Dante nevertheless was ...
In Dante’s 14th-century Inferno, gluttons are punished in the third circle of hell, where they are guarded and tortured by Cerberus, a monstrous three-headed beast, while lying face down in icy mud and slush. Dante also meets Ciacco—like Dante, a native of Florence—and they discuss the political strife…. Read More.
