Dante’s Inferno Test 2025 Questions
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Dante - ✔✔- 1265 to 1321; lives for 56 years and starts inferno at 35
- Born and raised in Florence, Italy
- studied law and rhetoric @ university
- Was a white Guelph
- Exiled from Florence for false accusations of embezzlement or the misuse or stealing of
money
Political Conflict jn Florence, Italy - ✔✔- Guelphs vs. Ghillbelines
Guelphs - ✔✔- supported the papacy or pope
Ghillbelines - ✔✔- supported Holy Roman Empire/ emperor
Dante's Universe - ✔✔- Earth is the center of his universe (geocentric)
- Inferno- hell, funnel, abyss, created by lucifer when he fell from heaven
- top of funnel- most sinful, bottom- least sinful
Divine Comedy - ✔✔- Started bad and ends good
- Began writing in 1308, close to when he died
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, - Struggle to reconcile self to exile through the trial of love(love+light= overcome
anything)
- Investigates mankind's search for salvation
- Must descend to humility to rise to God
Comus Oda - ✔✔- rustic song
Three Parts of Divine Comedy - ✔✔- Inferno- recognition of sin
- Purgatory or Purgatoria- renunciation/turn back on the sin
- Paradise or Paradisio- pinnacle of joy (high point)
Beatrice - ✔✔- met Dante when he was 9 and she was 18
- purgatory to paradise
- nice and kind
- linked to virgin mary
- sends virgil to get Dante through hell
Style and Structure - ✔✔- written in Italian vernacular
- Terza Rima rhyme scheme
- Motif of 3 and 9
- every writing has 33 cantos, except inferno with 34
- Dante's three day journey, started on Good friday and ended on Easter
- Allegory
Allegory - ✔✔- teach moral lesson
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and Answers 100% Pass
Dante - ✔✔- 1265 to 1321; lives for 56 years and starts inferno at 35
- Born and raised in Florence, Italy
- studied law and rhetoric @ university
- Was a white Guelph
- Exiled from Florence for false accusations of embezzlement or the misuse or stealing of
money
Political Conflict jn Florence, Italy - ✔✔- Guelphs vs. Ghillbelines
Guelphs - ✔✔- supported the papacy or pope
Ghillbelines - ✔✔- supported Holy Roman Empire/ emperor
Dante's Universe - ✔✔- Earth is the center of his universe (geocentric)
- Inferno- hell, funnel, abyss, created by lucifer when he fell from heaven
- top of funnel- most sinful, bottom- least sinful
Divine Comedy - ✔✔- Started bad and ends good
- Began writing in 1308, close to when he died
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, - Struggle to reconcile self to exile through the trial of love(love+light= overcome
anything)
- Investigates mankind's search for salvation
- Must descend to humility to rise to God
Comus Oda - ✔✔- rustic song
Three Parts of Divine Comedy - ✔✔- Inferno- recognition of sin
- Purgatory or Purgatoria- renunciation/turn back on the sin
- Paradise or Paradisio- pinnacle of joy (high point)
Beatrice - ✔✔- met Dante when he was 9 and she was 18
- purgatory to paradise
- nice and kind
- linked to virgin mary
- sends virgil to get Dante through hell
Style and Structure - ✔✔- written in Italian vernacular
- Terza Rima rhyme scheme
- Motif of 3 and 9
- every writing has 33 cantos, except inferno with 34
- Dante's three day journey, started on Good friday and ended on Easter
- Allegory
Allegory - ✔✔- teach moral lesson
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