The first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy, also known as Inferno, tells about the spiritual pilgrimage of Dante from Hell to Purgatory (Fiero 148). ... Alighieri opted to write Inferno as vernacular literature in order to address and apply its message of conflicting moralities to a wider audience, of and from medieval Italy, and to the world today. ... The poets encounter the four great poets of Dante's time-Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan-and welcomed Dante as part of the group (Alighieri III. 88-102). ... Virgil identifies the many historical figures swept toget...

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Dante Alighieri's own opinion was also shaped by the environment around him and political corruption. For Dante Alighieri, to be a traitor like Judas or Brutus was the worst sin of all. ... Dante's Inferno above all reflects the thoughts of the author and the social, as well as the political beliefs and structure at the time in Florence, Italy. ... Indeed, I find it funny that Dante Alighieri took tremendous pride in describing this scene while Dante the Pilgrim at first claimed it was impossible to ever put into words. Dante Alighieri saw Mohammed as one of the chief sinners resp...

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Augustine's Confessions and Dante Alighieri's Inferno are both stories about lost men on a journey to find salvation and God's grace in heaven. ... In Inferno, Dante goes through many battles while facing sin and temptation as he goes through the three divisions of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso. ... Dante's Inferno is also full of allegory and is all-together a learning process of Dante's life. ... " (Alighieri, 1.1-3) Dante knows that he has been lost throughout his life. ... " (Alighieri, 1.140) The seven deadly sins are all represented as Dante goes t...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Beatrice dies prematurely at the young age of twenty-five, and this inspires Alighieri to write Inferno. Inferno is a story about Dante's a brief period in his life when he lost sight of his moral principles, and turns to his faith in order to get him back on the correct path. ... Education becomes the primary element in all aspects of Stephen's life, and it helps guide him, as does Virgil in Dante's Inferno. ... In The Inferno, Virgil guides Dante through hell in order to ...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Beatrice dies prematurely at the young age of twenty-five, and this inspires Alighieri to write Inferno. Inferno is a story about Dante's a brief period in his life when he lost sight of his moral principles, and turns to his faith in order to get him back on the correct path. ... Education becomes the primary element in all aspects of Stephen's life, and it helps guide him, as does Virgil in Dante's Inferno. ... In The Inferno, Virgil guides Dante through hell in order to ...

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Everyman Dante's Inferno and Everyman clearly have certain similarities and certain differences in their main characters and themes. ... In Inferno, Dante suddenly wakes up in the dark woods and knows he must get out of them. ... In Inferno, Virgil, a personification of Dante's human reason, shows him that he needs to escape the sinful lifestyle he is in. ... Works Cited Alighieri. Inferno. ...

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If this were true it would mean that Christianity is the only religion that has any truth behind it since this concept of Hell in Christianity states that all other people who are not Christian are heretics in the eyes of their God; the concept of Hell in The Inferno is the same Hell in the Christian bible. ... "As soon as Dante's strength returns, the Poets begin to cross the FIRST CIRCLE. ... (Alighieri, 49) Many companies have been under the spotlight in our time such as Enron for financial fraud. ... So in the era in which The Inferno was written, sin and Hell were the system, which g...

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