English 1st Prelim Flashcards
The author of divine comedy
Dante Alighieri
What are the 3 segments in the story?
Hell, purgatory, and heaven
Dante’s year of birth
1265
The woman whom Dante married
Gemma di Manetto Donati
The person Dante has fallen for
Beatrice Portinari
Vita Nouva
The new life
Dante’s womanly ideal and religious inspiration
Beatrice Portinari
The poet; Dante’s guide
Virgil
What age did Dante found himself lost in the dark forest in 1300
35
What are the 3 beast?
Leopard, lion, and she-wolf
What did the leopard represent?
Lust
What did the lion represent?
Pride
What did the she-wolf represent?
Covetousness
The phrase that Dante inscribed hell
Abandon every hope, ye that enters
The unbaptized and the virtuous pagans, who, though not sinful, did not accept Christ
Limbo
Dante calls the “carnal malefactors”
Lust
In here, Cerberus guards them, forced to lie in a vile slush produced by ceaseless soul, icy rain
Gluttony
Those whose attitude toward material goods deviated from the appropriate mean are punished in the fourth circle
Greed
Lives in swamp-like water in Styx and keeps fighting each other
Anger or wrathful
Trapped in a flaming bomb
Heretics
The soul dies with the body
Heretics
3 rings in violence
Outer, middle, and inner ring
Violent against God
Inner ring
Violent against their selves
Middle ring
