Dante Flashcards

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1
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Dante marks the transition from what period to what period?

A

Medieval to Reniassance

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2
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What language did Dante write in?

A

Italian instead of Latin

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3
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He descended from whom?

A

The romans

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4
Q

Beatrice meets Dante where?

A

Gates of heaven

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5
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She wolf

A

Least dangerous, lighter crimes

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Lion

A

Loud roar, violent, sex crimes, murders, lust

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Leopard

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Spots, hidden, worst crimes, betrayal, fraud

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8
Q

Describe Satan

A

In the ice, skin bat wings, flapping causes high winds, 3 heads

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9
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Red Head

A

Judus who betrayed Christ, most powerful one

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10
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Left and right (Red and Black)

A

Brutus and Cassius who murdered Ceaser

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11
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What city was he from?

A

Florence

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12
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He loved both the blank church and the blank empire

A

Catholic and Roman

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13
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He also loved who?

A

Beatrice

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14
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Where does he meet Beatrice?

A

Paradise, in the comedy she meets Dante

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15
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Who’s Dantes guide through Hell and Purgatory?

A

Virgil, Roman poet

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16
Q

Why can’t Virgil be Dante’s tour guide through Paradise?

A

He is pagen, doesn’t believe in one God, never baptized

17
Q

Virgil is the symbol of?

A

Human reason

18
Q

Why is Dante a comedy?

A

It ends happily

19
Q

5 examples of 3

A

3 beats, 3 sections, 3 circles, 3 faces of Satan, 35 in 1300, 3 day Easter weekend, 33 Cantos, 3 books, Terza Rima, Holy Trinity

20
Q

Placing light on the mountain between the dark forest and the 3 beasts is an example of?

A

Juxtaposition

21
Q

What is the law of contrapasso

A

Punishment fits the crime

22
Q

What is the dark wood/forest that Dante finds himself in a symbol of?

A

Midlife Crisis

23
Q

Who were Pablo and Francesca? What was their crime and punishment?

A

Had an affair. Wind to represent their lust, they are stuck together

24
Q

What does Dante feel after experiencing all the levels of Hell?

A

Catharsis

25
Q

Lobby Level punishment

A

They have to follow a banner that never stops, banner is a stand of opinion they never have, have to run on maggots, while wasps surround them

26
Q

Count Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri - crime and punishment?

A

Committed treason, church gets him out of jail, he seals up the prison and the Count and his sons die of starvation, head is being eaten everyday

27
Q

Dante popularized what poem format

A

Sonnet