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Dantes InfernoAlso known as the Divine Comedy1Unit Essential QuestionHow does Dante use his life and his times in the Inferno?2Dantes Inferno Video GameGame trailerThe woman in the game is not Dantes wife. She is Beatrice, the love of his life.Virgil guides Dante during the gameVideo game preview cliphttp://www.youtube.com/movie?v=SuZUprDiGEc&ob=av5n&feature=mv_sr

Dante AlighieriBorn in 1265 in Florence, ItalyDied in 1321 in exile from FlorenceBeatrice Portinari was the love of his life, but he married and had children with a different womanWrote many poems about love, religion, and philosophy

4Dantes PoliticsDante was part of political group that wanted more freedom from Rome and the PopeFelt that the Pope was corrupt accepting money for forgiveness from sins and for important positions (Simony)Dantes group started out in power, but Pope Boniface VIII sent his army to take over FlorenceDante later writes about Boniface in Inferno he portrays him as burning in one of the bottom layers of Hell5What is Simony?Paying clergy for forgiveness, a pardon or for a church office. Also means paying for a church relic/artifactExileWhat does exile mean?

After Dantes party lost power, he was sentenced to two years of exile and had to pay a fineDante refuses to pay the fine on principle, so he was sentenced to burn at the stake if he returned to FlorenceExiled in 1302 and never returned7Divine ComedyThe Divine Comedy is Dantes most famous workA Comedy, in the literary sense, does not have to be funny and can be serious.A Comedy is a literary work with a happy endingVs. a Tragedy, which does not have a happy endingComposed of three separate books:The Inferno (we read from this part)The PurgatorioThe ParadisoEach book consists of several Cantos, or sections

8The InfernoInferno means HellThe first book of the Divine ComedyWe will read parts of this bookCantos 1, 3, 5, 33, 34Dante travels through Hell and sees Sin for what it isThe most famous and widely-read of the three books because of the interesting Sin and Damnation

9What is a Canto?Sections, like chapters in a bookThe PurgatorioPurgatorio or PurgatoryWhat does purgatory mean?The second book of the Divine ComedyWe dont read thisDante travels through Purgatory and learns what he must do to live a life free of sinDescribes the Earth as being round11The ParadisoParadise or HeavenThe final book of the Divine ComedyWe dont read thisDante travels through Heaven, repents his past sins, and believes that he will now live a life free of sinSpeaks with several saints and sees God12Epic PoemA long poem about a significant event, battle, or journeyExamples: The Iliad and BeowulfContains an Epic Hero a person on whom the fate of a culture hangs in the balance13Dante as an Epic HeroDante was the first author to cast himself as the Epic HeroMost Epic Heroes fight in famous, dramatic battlesDantes character determines his own fate instead of a cultures fateScholars call the Divine Comedy Dantes Midlife Crisis because he was writing about his own journey to find meaning in his lifeThis is called an Allegory a story that symbolizes something else (Animal Farm, Avatar)14PlotTwo levelsOn the surface, this is a poem about a mans journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven (what do we call someone traveling for religious reasons?)

On a deeper level, this is an allegory about societys/Dantes journey to God

15Main CharactersDante himself is the main character in the Divine Comedy. He must travel through Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory.The poet Virgil guides Dante through Hell and Purgatory, but cannot enter heaven because he lived before Jesus died, enabling humans to enter Heaven.Dantes love, Beatrice, guides him through Heaven.16VirgilVirgil is the Roman poet who wrote the Epic The Aeneid about the founding of RomeDante believed Virgil to be the greatest poet who ever livedHe admired and respected Virgil above all people, and chose him to guide Dantes character through Hell (Inferno) and Purgatory.17BeatriceThey were in the friend zone Friends clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pnMWvbFpS8Dante met Beatrice when he was nine-years-old, and fell in love at first sightDante had a very significant crush on Beatrice for the rest of his life, but never had a relationship with herHe believed that she was his Muse, and frequently wrote about her in his poetry

18BeatriceWhen Dante was 25, Beatrice diedDante believed that Beatrice was his reason for writing poetry and living, so he took her death badlyBeatrice is Dantes idea of idealized lovebut he never really knew herIn his later poems, Beatrice became a figure who guided and watched over DanteIn the Divine Comedy, Beatrice guides Dante through Heaven (Paradiso)

19Religion (but you cant talk about that in school!)Dante was a Roman Catholic, living in Italy, in the Middle AgesDante is the author AND protagonist of the Divine Comedy, so the entire story is told through the lens of his beliefsWhat is a protagonist?We can identify the lens, and look through the lens, but Dantes beliefs are not necessarily yours or mine This a work of fiction, and not a religious text

No other religious optionsHis worldviews were shaped by Christianity, and he believed what the Christian church taughtTells a story about Dantes struggles with his faith, but it does not prescribe anything that we have to believe or follow20Dantes HellDantes ideas about Hell (and Heaven) were shaped by the Catholic Church as well as the philosophers of his timeDantes Hell (Inferno) has many layers, each for a different type of SinThe further you descend, the worse the sins (and the punishments) getThe deeper you go into Hell, the deeper you go into the center of the Earth.Satan lives at the bottom of Hell but he is being punished too.

21 Circles of HellSelf-IndulgenceLustfulGluttonousGreedyBad-temperedHeresyViolenceMaliciousnessFraudTreachery22