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Dante Background Flashcards

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St. Augustine

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Christianized Plato

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Yr St. Augustine was born

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400

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Yr fall of Rome

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476

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Early Middle Ages

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400-1000

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Charlemagne crowned HRE

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800

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Yr Otto crowned HRE

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962

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Plato’s influence yrs

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400-1200

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Yr Catholics take Jerusalem from Muslims

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1099

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Muslim scholars translated Aristotle yr

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1200

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Late Middle Ages

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1300-14/1500

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Aristotle yrs

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1200-1500

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11
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Yr Byzantine falls

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1453

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Hapsburg

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1452

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How long did HRE last

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1000 yrs

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14
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HRE centered in what country

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Germany

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15
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Purpose of crusades

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Take Jerusalem from Muslims

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16
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Philosopher important to Dante

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Aristotle

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Aristotle in relation to Plato

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Scientific –> refutes Plato

18
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St Thomas Aquinas

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Interested in Aristotle

19
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Dante’s last name

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Alighieri

20
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Dante’s native city state

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Florence

21
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Guelfs supported

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Pope

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Ghibellines supported

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HRE

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Battle of Montaperti- Ghibellines win

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1260

24
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Battle of benevento- guelfs finally win

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1266

25
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Black guelfs

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Support pope

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White guelfs

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Support HRE

27
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Yr Dante is born

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1265

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Dante’s love

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Beatrice (Bice Portinari)

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Courtly love

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Amour courtois

30
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Dante leaves florence

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1301

31
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Dante found guilty of

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Corruption

32
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Dante leaves florence

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1301

33
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Pope Dante blamed

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Boniface VIII

34
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Yr Dante starts Commedia

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1307-8

35
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Yr Commedia is finished and Dante dies

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1321

36
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Dante is buried in

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Ravenna

37
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Cantos in Commedia

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

38
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Comedy

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Starts unhappy ends happy, can use simpler language than epic

39
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Terra Rima

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“3rd rhyme”
Tercets
Aba bcb cdc

40
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Musa

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

41
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Ciardi

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Kept Terza Rima

42
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Longfellow

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

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