Category: Book The Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy Summary
This epic poem tells the reader the story from Dante’s alter-ego, the Piligrim, point of view. The Piligrim starts his travel to the Heaven through Hell and Purgatory. He gets lost in the wild forest and attacked by the beasts – a lion, a leopard and a she-wolf – but the spirit of the ancient…
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The Divine Comedy Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
The hope is that here, as in other respects, the reader is invited into a critical and collaborative venture, seeing what Dante sees and constructing along with him (as he himself asks his reader to do, for instance, in Paradiso 13: 1–18) the relationships that define us humans in our own participation in existence. The…
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The Divine Comedy Essays
The Divine Comedy Dante’s Inferno exposes us all on how God punishes sinners. Dante clearly states that hell exists to punish sin and the suitability of hell’s specific punishments testifies to the divine perfection that all sin violates. Does this mean that man is not left with any other choices? Can a man still… 1…