in your warm-up section, list as many as sins as you can think. this is an individual activity, do...
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DANTE’S INFERNO
Can you name the Seven Deadly Sins?
In your warm-up section, list as many as sins as you can think.
This is an individual activity, do not use your peers
Gluttony Lust Wrath Envy Sloth Greed Pride
Dante Alighieri
Florence, Italy May/June 1265 low-aristocracy
family (not very wealthy) of the white guelfo party.
Opposed pope Bonifacio’s expansion policy
Two options: Fine and Exile or Death
Dante’s first studies were: rhetoric grammar philosophy literature theology
Divine Comedy Divine: to explain the kind of content of the
poem and to celebrate the greatness and beauty of the work.
Comedy: work representing a story with a happy ending; to them, “comedy” didn’t = funny
Models: Bible, and Canto VI of Virgil’s Aeneid
Summary
In the Divine Comedy, Dante travels through three transmundane kingdoms Hell (Inferno) Purgatory (Purgatorio) Heaven (Paradiso)
The moral and religious conversion of Dante symbolizes the conversion of the whole of mankind; Dante represents all of us
