Divine Comedy - Dante Flashcards
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“O you who are within your little bark,
eager to listen, following behind
my ship, that, singing, crosses to deep seas,
turn back to see your shores again: do not
attempt to sail the seas I sail; you may,
by losing sight of me, be left astray”
Dante, the Poet - Purgatorio, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“The essence of this blessed life consists
in keeping to the boundaries of God’s will,
through which our wills become one single will, …
And in his will there is our peace: that sea
to which all things move”
Piccarda - Paradiso, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“They showed themselves to you here not because
this is their sphere, but as a sign for you
that in the Empyrean their place is lowest”
Beatrice - Paradiso, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“Through you I was a poet and, through you, a Christian”
Statius - Purgatorio ,Divine Comedy
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“Await no further word or sign from me:
your will is free, erect, and whole-to act
against that will would be to err: therefore
I crown and miter you over yourself”
Virgil - Purgatorio, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“Dante, though Virgil’s leaving you, do not
yet weep, do not weep yet; you’ll need your tears
for what another sword must yet inflict”
Beatrice - Purgatorio, Divine Comedy
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“And I was born, though late, sub Julio, and lived in Rome under the good Augustus-
the season of the false and lying god”
Virgil - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“Love, that can quickly seize the gentle heart,
took hold of him because of the fair body
take from me”
Francesca - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book: "O light and honour of all other poets, may my long study and the intense love that made me search your volume serve me now. You are my master and my author"
Dante, the Pilgrim - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“Forget your hope of ever seeing heaven:
I come to lead you to the other shore,
to the eternal dark, to fire and frost”
Charon - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Fill in the Blank:
The sphere in which Justinian talks about the history of Rome is_______________.
Mercury - Paradiso, Divine Comedy
Fill in the Blank:
St. Thomas Aquinas is in the sphere of the ___.
Sun - Paradiso, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“But why should I go there? Who sanction it?
For I am not Aeneas, am not Paul;
nor I nor others think myself so worthy.”
Dante, the Pilgrim - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“From all that I have heard of him in Heaven,
he is, I fear, already so astray
that I have come to help him much too late.”
Beatrice - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“One day, to Pass the time away, we read
of Lancelot-how love had overcome him.
We were alone, and we suspected nothing.”
Francesca - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“If I had not died too soon for this, /…/
I should have helped sustain you in your work.
But that malicious, that ungrateful people
come down, in ancient times, from Fiesole
… for your good deeds, will be your enemy.”
Brunette Latini (sodomite who was Dante’s mentor) - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“O sun, that heals all sight that is perplexed,
when I ask you, you answer so contents
that doubting pleases me as much as knowing.”
Dante, the Pilgrim - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book: "Who were your ancestors? /.../ They were ferocious enemies of mine and of my parents and my party, so that I had to scatter them twice over."
Farinata (one of the heretics) - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book: "The prince of the new Pharisees ... asked me to give counsel. /.../ I said: 'Since you cleanse me of the sin that I must fall into, Father, know: long promises and very brief fulfillments will bring victory to your high throne."
Guido da Montefeltro (Fraudulent counsellor) - Inferno [Canto 24], Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book: "O, Malacoda, do you think I've come ... already armed- as you can see-against your obstacles, without the will of God and helpful fate?"
Virgil - Inferno, Divine Comedy
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“Stay as you are, for you are rightly punished;
and guard with care the money got by evil. /…/
And were it not that I am still prevented
by reverence for those exalted keys
that you had held within the happy life,
I’d utter words heavier than these.”
Virgil - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“Brothers, O you, who have crossed
a hundred thousands dangers, reach the west, /…/
consider well the seed that gave you birth:
you were not made to live your lives as brutes
but to be followers of worth and knowledge.:
Ulysses - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“Because I severed those so joined, I carry-
alas-my brain dissevered from its source,
which is within my trunk. And thus, in me one sees the law of counter-penalty.”
Beltran de Born - Inferno, Divine Comedy
Identify the Speaker and Book:
“Now blind, I started groping over each [corpse];
and after they were dead, I called them for
two days; then fasting had more force than grief
Ugolino - Inferno, Divine Comedy
