Critical Companion to Dante: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work
Jay Rudd
Language: English
Pages: 577
ISBN: B017V884LA
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Sifting carefully through the voluminous literature, Ruud (English, U. of Central Arkansas) offers students and general readers an introduction to Italian poet Dante (1265-1321) and his works. A biography is followed by detailed commentary on The Divine Comedy and his lesser known writings. Among the appendices are a chronology and a list of Internet sources.
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Beatrice, in her role as Divine Wisdom, who chases away the fox of heresy. The third affliction involves the return of the eagle, whose feathers now adorn the chariot itself. This represents the Donation of Constantine, the legendary grant that the emperor Constantine was reputed to have made to Pope Sylvester I in the early fourth century, ceding to the pope and his successors all temporal power in Western Europe. For Dante the Donation (exposed in the renaissance as an eighth-century forgery).
System). This seems to inspire the pilgrim, who snaps to with some enthusiasm. Now the poets cross the bridge over the seventh bolgia and from the top of its arch look down into that chasm from the far bank. From this vantage point they can hear a confused cry from the darkness below but can make out no shapes. Dante asks Virgil to take him down into the pit, and Virgil agrees. Once in the pit itself, the poets observe a scene full of monstrous serpents and naked, fleeing sinners. Some of the.
Because of his false counsel. As for the pope’s absolution, the devil claims it is worthless, for no one can repent an act at the same time he is willing it. Thus the devil, through his own cunning rhetorical skills, wins the soul of Guido, taunting him for not realizing that the devil was a logician. When the flame has ceased speaking, Dante and Virgil move on, now to the ninth circle, where the “sowers of discord” are punished. As he looks down into the ninth ditch at the opening of Canto 28,.
Whom Dante addressed pauses in his grisly meal, wipes his lips on the hair of his victim, and responds to the Inferno poet’s request: Telling his own story causes him great pain, he says, but if he can help to spread his victim’s infamy in the world, he is willing to relate the tale. He identifies himself as Count Ugolino and his victim as Archbishop RUGGIERI DEGLI UBALDINI DELLA PILA and goes on to tell what is perhaps the most famous story in the Inferno. Ruggieri had imprisoned Ugolino in a.
The four stars represent the four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance), and the three stars here suggest the three theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity). The cardinal virtues may be acquired by human beings and even become habitual (as Dante suggests they are in the Malaspina family later in this canto, ll. 130–132), and hence are attainable by all people, Christian or pagan. But the theological virtues can only be attained through divine grace, and it is only.