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Dante’s Inferno

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

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Dante’s Inferno

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  1. Dante’s Inferno

  2. 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

  3. Dante Alighieri • Florence, Italy • May/June 1265 • low-aristocracy family (not very wealthy) of the white guelfo party. • Opposed pope Bonifacio’sexpansion policy • Two options: Fine and Exile or Death • Dante’s first studies were: • rhetoric • grammar • philosophy • literature • theology

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Inferno • http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/

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