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DANTE: THE divine comedy VOLUME 1: INFERNO The Essay Exploration of the realities about the world Hereinafter as well as the life after death has always been a matter of great interest for the intellectuals, scholars, writers and philosophers, the reflection of which can be found in their sayings, teachings and works.... It is partially because of the religious belief they follow and the Scripture they imitate as a source of spiritual guidance for them; the same is applied with famous epic poem divine comedy written by fourteenth century Italian poet Dante....
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In this essay, the author demonstrates how Dante Alighieri has depicted his detailed journey into the hell out of his imagination, religious belief and information he had gathered during his study of the life Hereinafter in his work under the title 'divine comedy.... Virgil, who would serve dante's guide to Inferno, and would lead him towards all the nine circles.... Canto IV explains that the great personalities including Noah and Moses were also in the Inferno, which was granted pardon by Christ during his visit to hell and thus they were shifted from Limbo to Heaven on the basis of amnesty Jesus Christ bestowed upon them....
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dante's divine comedy While classic literature contains a nearly bottomless treasure trove of works, perhaps the preeminent work of classical Italian literature is dante's divine comedy.... This essay examines dante's divine comedy in relation to its implementation of a variety of literary techniques.... dante's divine comedy begins with the Inferno.... dante's use of language in these lines further attests to his exploration of religious themes, as the ‘right road' has a specific relation to moral concerns that are reminiscent of religion....
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dante's divine comedy The figure of Dante who roams through the infernal reaches of hell encounters a number of characters who endure terrible suffering, apparently because of sins which they have committed during their lives on earth.... This satisfaction at the man's fate shows an element of revenge in dante's depiction.... Commentators have noted that this person's name “Argenti” may have derived from “an ostentatious habit of shoeing his horse in silver (argento)” and that he was a Black Guelph which meant he was a political enemy of Dante (University of Texas, n....
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The paper "Analysis of Dante's Inferno Part of a Trilogy Known as The divine comedy" discusses that purity from sin is the only way to God and that the unification of the church and state is a sinful and disastrous concept which would severely affect the state of the society at the time.... Purity from sin is very important to the author.... The author had just been exiled from Florence and ultimately condemns several political figures with whom he disagreed with, to hell, scattering them around the landscape of the poem....
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A writer of the paper "Dante: divine comedy" claims that written by Dante between 1308 and his death in 1321, divine comedy attained immense approbation for its presentation of the creative and allegorical apparition of the Christian afterlife.... Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) divine comedy has been considered as the single most fundamental epic poem of Italian literature and the prominence of this illustrious piece has crossed the boundaries of the land, people, and literature to be known as one of the essential pieces of world literature....
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??The Divine comedy' by Dante and ‘Odyssey' by Homer are two such pieces that can be compared.... The Divine comedy is an Italian epic poem, while the Odyssey is a Greek one.... The Divine comedy, for instance starts off after the individual has lived his transient life on earth and progresses towards the permanent life in Heaven.... While The Divine comedy deals with the theology of the Christian faith and the elements of medieval belief as kindled by the Church, the Odyssey delves into the heroics of the Greek hero, Ulysses....
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The author analyzes Dante Alighieri's classic work The divine comedy in which the poet describes his version of the spiritual life of the soul after death as a reflection of the type of life they led.... The section of the comedy establishes Dante's ideas that the only way to receive God's blessing is through Christian faith.... Many of the people he named in his book were popular figures from both history and myth....
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