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Sep 13, 2021 · Dante’s pilgrimage adds a third dimension: It is both an ascent, from the bowels of hell to the airy kingdom of heaven, and an inner journey, as Dante (and the reader) get closer and closer to meeting God. There are so many metaphysical layers to decipher that, 700 years after Dante’s death, scholars still have much to ponder.
Aug 2, 2021 · Dante’s dead sinners, like live addicts today, are trapped in an eternal repetition compulsion from which they have lost the power, or the desire, to escape. HELL AS NARCISSISM But that is not surprising, since Dante’s hell offers sinners exactly what they want; or, to put it more accurately, it offers them the logical outcome of their choices.
2 days ago · That includes the blank and insipid hell of a life in which nothing is worth dying for. Think of the opportunists just within the gates of Dante’s hell, condemned to run forever after an empty banner. But no one will accuse Dante, who died 700 years ago Sept. 14, of being a trimmer, cutting his cloth to fit the times.
"Dante's love and sympathy for several of the souls in hell acts as a form of redemption for them (e.g. Paolo and Francesca in the circle of the lustful, Canto 5; Brunetto Latino in the circle of ...
Apr 11, 2021 · The Inferno may not outline our circumstances, but it does outline our condition. Or as James Wood pointedly observed: it is less that Dante’s Hell is life-like, than that our life can be Hell-like. The poem’s narration begins on the eve of Good Friday 1300, when the pilgrim Dante awakens in a dark wood, with no memory of how he came to be ...
The most significant moment in Canto XV is the meeting between Dante and Ser Brunetto, Dante's mentor and a source of encouragement. Dante was influenced by Ser Brunetto's works, one of which he mentions — the Treasure. This is one of the high points in the Inferno. Clearly, Dante felt that Ser Brunetto was an important man and cared for him ...
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Sep 9, 2021 · Reading the story of Dante’s Divine Comedy may strike some modern readers as an escape into an extraordinary world, where everything makes sense and everything is in its place. But it is not an ...