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This article examines the influence of Florence, Italy's politics on Dante's writing, specifically in Canto XXIV of The Inferno. T...

far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (Homer The Odyssey PG). The Odyssey was written in 800 B.C. and woven in...

In four pages the Virgil character is examined within the context of 'Inferno' and also considered as he actually existed as an ac...

points out that "communal Italy" is "historians shorthand for the high urbanized areas of Lombardy and Tuscany between the twelfth...

to house arrogant souls who are guilt of other things as well. While Aeneas may not be guilty of betrayal or other crimes, he may ...

did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...

other "undesirables" including gypsies, homosexuals and others who were considered unfit. His crime then is genocide. Saddam Hu...

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

character is a woman who had an affair with her brother-in-law. This circle is followed by a level of gluttony. The fourth "The Av...

He was relatively well educated, in both Christian and classical literature (Books and Writers, 2008). In addition, it is perhaps ...

the founders of modern sociology; his interests were wide ranging, including the sociology of politics and the sociology of religi...

Comedy", Europe was in the midst of a transitional period. The Christian church was already well established, but many of the most...

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

merely a picture of a creature that is the embodiment of power and evil. And, as such it is not anything that Satan does, in terms...

is seen as a simple woman as well, a woman who loves her husband, is perhaps desiring of sexual relations with him, and ultimately...

But it also has a number of large clerestory windows that allow light to flood into the building. (A clerestory window is a window...

fit their sin. As these people never committed themselves to anything, they chase an elusive banner for all eternity. Virgil expla...

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Of course, the water is not pure. It is important to remember this is a hellish environment and reflects that aura. One might be i...

journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of rede...

down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...

forest, having lost his way from the "true path." One night, when half my life behind me lay, I wandered from the straight lost ...

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

manner in which both people and society are viewed. The very basis of the story is perhaps the biggest symbol, where Hester Prynn...

hes writing" (Steinberg inferno.htm). It is the Canto which presents us with the innocent and frightened Dante. He is just beginni...

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...

Iin this paper that consists of 5 pages the appropriate punishments for characters from four major literary works contained within...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages, the meaning of Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno' is discussed. There is 1 bibliographic source cited....

A brief passage from 'Inferno' is examined in 3 pages as it pertains to the ice lake's frozen sinners with the author's intention ...

In 7 pages this paper examines what the animal symbolism represents in a comparative analysis of these two literary works. There ...