Greg Young The Inferno of Dante A.P. English August 26, 2003 In the beginning of The Inferno of Dante, by Robert Pinsky, Dante builds a great deal of tension between the objective of God's justice, and Dante's human sympathy for the souls that he sees around him. ... Frightened, Dante returns to the forest. ... Beatrice being Dante's love. ... Latini is pacing amidst the crowd of souls who were violent toward nature. ...

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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). The Roman poet Virgil, who guides Dante through hell, acts as the symbol of reason and studies the varieties of human sin (Sayre 441). ... Dante places the sodomites under this circle because sexual relations between males were condemned as Raffa states, "for being 'contrary to nature' [meanwhile]In Dante's day, male-male relationswere common in Florence despite [the] denunciations.... It is still regard...

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Dante was born into a Guelf family. ... It is divided into three sections, named the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso (Paradise). ... This is not just a story to entertain us, but also a story to show the imperfectness of humans and the impact our imperfections have on our lives. ... When Petrarch isolated a part of nature from the whole, the sky and earth became closed. ... The event that Petrarch describes in terms as "certainly of benefit to himself and many others" begins a new realistic, individualistic, and rational understanding of nature. ...

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