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“Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”

 Born 1265 AD in Florence, Italy  Educated son of a prominent nobleman  Political exile from Florence in 1302  Died September 14, 1321 AD  Finished The Divine Comedy right before his death.

 Divine: “emanated from God”  Comedy: “contains a happy resolution”  Inferno: Journey through hell  Purgatorio: Journey through purgatory  Paradisio: Journey through heaven  First major work to appear after the dark ages

 Written in Italian instead of Latin  Understood by the common man, underclass, and uneducated, not just the educated elite.  Composed of 34 cantos, Italian for “I sing”.  Written in terza rima:  Interlocking three-line rhyme scheme (A-B-A; B- C-B; C-D-C; D-E-D; E-F-E; etc.)  Each three-line scheme is called a tercet.

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 Story whose literal plot deals entirely in symbols giving a second meaning implied by the events of the narrative.  Dante (Everyman)  Mount of Joy (Heaven)  Beatrice (Divine Love)

 Political, historical, mythological, religious, and contemporary people comprise Dante’s idea of hell.  Intertemporality: The mingling of events and people from different time periods.

 “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray.”  Homeric Similes  Allegory  The True Way  Mount of Joy (Heaven)  She-Wolf (Incontinence, involuntary action), Lion (Violence), Leopard (Fraud).  Why is Virgil a good guide for Dante?  Sub Julio  Ending couplet

 Invocation of the Muse  “I am not Aeneas. I am not Paul.”  Beatrice  Rachel (Contemplative Life) & Lucia (Divine Light)  Death, Rebirth, and the Perfect Easter  How does Alighieri extend Virgil’s link between Rome & Italy?

 Only those elements time cannot wear  Were made before me, and beyond time I stand  Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

 Inscription on Gate of Hell  The Opportunists  Nearly soulless whose lives concluded neither blame nor praise/ only for themselves  The Great Denial: Celestine V & Boniface VIII  Acheron/ Charon  Two reasons for Dante’s Swoon

 Dante’s Swoon  Born before the age of Christ  How did Adam, Abel, Noah, Moses, etc. get out from the first circle?  Hector, Aeneas, Caesar  Homer, Horace, Lucan, Ovid/ The Citadel of Human Reason (Pictured)  Socrates & Plato

 Minos (Why with Carnal?)  Dido (Why?)  Cleopatra  Helen of Sparta  Francesca & Paolo (Pictured)  Achilles  Paris

 Cerberus (Pictured; Why with gluttonous?)  Ciacco the Hog  What does Ciacco want Dante to do?

 Hoarders & Wasters (Pictured)  Plutus (god of wealth; why?; Pluto?)  Charbydis  Symbolic Retribution of Sin  Dame Fortune  Upper Hell  Divine Illumination

 Styx  Phlegyas (Why is he with Wrathful & Sullen?)  Filippo Argenti (pictured)  Dis, the capital of Hell  Rebellious Angels

 Three Furies (Pictured)  Medusa  The Heavenly Messenger  The Heretics