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Annotation: Dante?s Inferno, Page 81, L 31 to Page 82, L 63. ... The hostility Dante
demonstrates marks his progression in his journey of purification. ...
The Divine Comedy: Dante. ... As the reader I got to take an imaginary journey with
Dante to a horrible place where I do not care about going. ...
Dante. Dante the Pilgrim was once a spiritual and holy man, but as of recently he
had felt less than holy. Yet, he still wants to remain spiritual. ...
Dante Alighieri 2. Dante’s Influence on Italian Culture Dante Alighieri was
a very well known and influential poet in early literature. ...
Dante’S Inferno And The Swimmer. ... Many of the themes used in The Swimmer have been
influenced by themes from Dante’s Inferno of The Divine Comedy. ...
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
The greatest Italian poet and one of the most important writers of European literature. Dante is best known for the epic poem COMMEDIA, c. 1310-14, later named LA DIVINA COMMEDIA. It has profoundly affected not only the religious imagination but all subsequent allegorical creation of imaginary worlds in literature. Dante spent much of his life traveling from one city to another. This had perhaps more to do with the restless times than his wandering character or fixation on the Odyssey. However, his Commedia can also be called a spiritual travel book.
"It were a shameful thing if one should rhyme under the semblance of metaphor or rhetorical similitude, and afterwards, being questioned thereof, should be unable to rid his words of such semblance, unto their right understanding." (from Vita Nuova, c. 1293)
Dante Alighieri was born into a Florentine family of noble ancestry. Little is known about Dante's childhood. His mother, Bella degli Abati, died when he was seven years old. His father, Alighiero II, made his living by money-lending and renting of property. After the death of his wife he remarried, but died in the early 1280s, before the future poet reached manhood. Brunetto Latini, a man of letters and a politician, became a father figure for Dante, but later in his Commedia Dante placed Latini in Hell, into the seventh circle, among those who were guilty of "violence against nature" - sodomy.
Dante received a thorough education in both classical and Christian literature. At the age of 12 he was promised to his future wife, Gemma Donati. Dante had already fallen in love with another girl whom he called Beatrice. She was 9 years old. Years later Dante met Beatrice again. He had become interested in writing verse, and although he wrote several sonnets to Beatrice, he never mentioned his wife Gemma in any of his poems. One of his early sonnets Dante sent to the poet Guido...
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