Dante Background

Question 0

St. Augustine

Answer 0

Christianized Plato

Question 1

Yr St. Augustine was born

Answer 1

400

Question 2

Yr fall of Rome

Answer 2

476

Question 3

Early Middle Ages

Answer 3

400-1000

Question 4

Charlemagne crowned HRE

Answer 4

800

Question 5

Yr Otto crowned HRE

Answer 5

962

Question 6

Plato’s influence yrs

Answer 6

400-1200

Question 7

Yr Catholics take Jerusalem from Muslims

Answer 7

1099

Question 8

Muslim scholars translated Aristotle yr

Answer 8

1200

Question 9

Late Middle Ages

Answer 9

1300-14/1500

Question 10

Aristotle yrs

Answer 10

1200-1500

Question 11

Yr Byzantine falls

Answer 11

1453

Question 12

Hapsburg

Answer 12

1452

Question 13

How long did HRE last

Answer 13

1000 yrs

Question 14

HRE centered in what country

Answer 14

Germany

Question 15

Purpose of crusades

Answer 15

Take Jerusalem from Muslims

Question 16

Philosopher important to Dante

Answer 16

Aristotle

Question 17

Aristotle in relation to Plato

Answer 17

Scientific –> refutes Plato

Question 18

St Thomas Aquinas

Answer 18

Interested in Aristotle

Question 19

Dante’s last name

Answer 19

Alighieri

Question 20

Dante’s native city state

Answer 20

Florence

Question 21

Guelfs supported

Answer 21

Pope

Question 22

Ghibellines supported

Answer 22

HRE

Question 23

Battle of Montaperti- Ghibellines win

Answer 23

1260

Question 24

Battle of benevento- guelfs finally win

Answer 24

1266

Question 25

Black guelfs

Answer 25

Support pope

Question 26

White guelfs

Answer 26

Support HRE

Question 27

Yr Dante is born

Answer 27

1265

Question 28

Dante’s love

Answer 28

Beatrice (Bice Portinari)

Question 29

Courtly love

Answer 29

Amour courtois

Question 30

Dante leaves florence

Answer 30

1301

Question 31

Dante found guilty of

Answer 31

Corruption

Question 32

Dante leaves florence

Answer 32

1301

Question 33

Pope Dante blamed

Answer 33

Boniface VIII

Question 34

Yr Dante starts Commedia

Answer 34

1307-8

Question 35

Yr Commedia is finished and Dante dies

Answer 35

1321

Question 36

Dante is buried in

Answer 36

Ravenna

Question 37

Cantos in Commedia

Answer 37

Inferno- 34 (intro+33)
Purgatorio- 33
Paradiso- 33

Question 38

Comedy

Answer 38

Starts unhappy ends happy, can use simpler language than epic

Question 39

Terra Rima

Answer 39

“3rd rhyme”
Tercets
Aba bcb cdc

Question 40

Musa

Answer 40

For Penguin Classics
New out of print
Didn’t retain rhyme scheme

Question 41

Ciardi

Answer 41

Kept Terza Rima

Question 42

Longfellow

Answer 42

Not best translation but read by most Americans in 19th and 30th centuries