Divina commedia

Question 1

Divine comedy

Answer 1

Considered a masterpiece of world literature, it is a poem in hendecasyllables divided into three canticles. 

Question 2

Language

Answer 2

-Great richness in Dante’s vocabulary.
-Different components of language (low and educated vocabulary).
-Blending of styles.
-Presence of scientific vocabulary.
-Use of regionalisms and forestierisms.

Question 3

Interpretations of the work

Answer 3

-Allegorical
-Figural

Question 4

Plot of the work

Answer 4

Dante-character’s journey to the three realms of the afterlife. The otherworldly universe is built, by means of a precise architectonic scheme, on astronomical knowledge based on the Aristotelic-Tolemaic geocentric system

Question 5

Hell

Answer 5

-World of the damned.
-It is divided into circles.
-The damned suffer torment reminiscent of the sin they have committed (law of opprobrium).
-Guide: Virgili

Question 6

Hell (T)

Answer 6

T18: A tussle between two devils.
T21: Guido from Montefeltro.
T24: Mouth of the Abbots.

Question 7

Purgatory

Answer 7

-Mounting rising from the waters of the southern hemisphere.
-Its summit is home to the Earthly Paradise.
-It is divided into frames.
-Each frame is assigned an angel representing the virtue opposed to the punished sin.
-Guide: Virgil and Beatrice

Question 8

Purgatory (T)

Answer 8

T19: The meeting with Casella.
T22: Marco Lombardo.
T25: Oderisi of Gubbio

Question 9

Paradise

Answer 9

-World in which angels reside and souls received into heaven.
-It is divided into skies.
-Each blessed person will be shown to the gate in heaven that represents his or her specific and peculiar moral virtue.
-Guide: Beatrice and Saint Bernard

Question 10

Paradise (T)

Answer 10

T20: The description of the Empyrean.
T23: The ancient Florence of Cacciaguida.
T26: Invocation to the constellation Gemini.