Dante’s Inferno Test Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded

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Dante’s Inferno Test Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
Dante

Ans: - 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

Ans: - Guelphs vs. Ghillbelines


Guelphs

Ans: - supported the papacy or pope


Ghillbelines

Ans: - supported Holy Roman Empire/ emperor


Dante's Universe

Ans: - 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




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Ans: - Started bad and ends good
- Began writing in 1308, close to when he died
- 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

Ans: - rustic song


Three Parts of Divine Comedy

Ans: - Inferno- recognition of sin
- Purgatory or Purgatoria- renunciation/turn back on the sin
- Paradise or Paradisio- pinnacle of joy (high point)


Beatrice

Ans: - 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




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