Dante Alighieri 1265-1321.Ppt

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The Divine ComedyThe Divine ComedyThree Divisions

1.Inferno

2.Purgatorio3.Paradiso


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Language and StyleLanguage and StyleLow Style: Bawdy language/slang

grotes!ue i"agery.#igh Style: $levated language. Poeti%.&%ade"i% Language: Latin

'erna%ular: ItalianDante (sed: Italian) 'erna%ular(se of Language follows *ourney: Low to

#igh.

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,entury Slang: Dante-s use of slangwas sho%ing to his audien%es.Polarity of Language: Shows the various

ossi0ilities of language


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THE INFLUENCE OFTHE INFLUENCE OF

ARISTOTLEARISTOTLE


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Influence of Ai!totleInfluence of Ai!totle

During the iddle &ges) &ristotle was the one%lassi%al hilosoher that the $uroeans etstudying#is fo%us on re%ision) %ategoriing) and detail

0e%a"e the hall"ars of s%holarshi during the

iddle &ges $verything has a la%e $a%h detail 0uilds on the ne4t

5The 6reat ,hain of Being7 Idea for"ed during the iddle &ges) influen%ed 0y

&ristotelian logi% $verything is %onne%ted) lie lins in a %hain) fro" the

lowliest ele"ent to 6od sitting on the throne of #eavenevery %reation has its la%e and they are all ordered fro"worst to 0est


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Ai!totle"! Definition of TagedyAi!totle"! Definition of Tagedy5& tragedy is the i"itation of an a%tion that is serious

and also) as having "agnitude) %o"lete in itself in

aroriate and leasura0le language8 in adra"ati% rather than narrative for" with in%identsarousing ity and fear) wherewith to a%%o"lish a%atharsis of these e"otions.7

&ristotle-s argu"ent is that

a tragedy was a wor inelevated language thatstarted haily and ended in

horror.


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The Alighieri family was considered

noble, although by Dantes time hisfamily was reduced to modest

economic and social circumstances.

According to Dante himself, the family

descended from the noble seed of the

Roman founders of the city. (Inferno

XV.!"#$


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At the age of %, Dante met eight"year"old &eatrice 'ortinari,

who eentually became a ma)or influence in his life andwritings. &eatrice married another man and died when Dante

was *+, so their relationshi e-isted almost entirely in Dantes

mind, but she nonetheless lays an e-tremely imortant role

in his oetry.

The

Meeting

of Dantewith

Beatrice

by Henry

Holiday


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9I:T;RI


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The Bhites were oosed to 'aal ower

than the &lac?s, and tended to faor theemeror. Dante rose to a osition of

leadershi among the Bhite 6uelfs.

In 5!7*, while he was in Rome on adilomatic mission, the &lac?s in 8lorence

seiCed ower. The &lac?s e-iled Dante, seiCing

all his goods and condemning him to be

burned if he eer returned to 8lorence.


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Dante assed from court to

court, writing assionateolitical and moral letters

and finishing his Diine


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#ea! in e$ile#ea! in e$ile

Dante wandered throughout Italy.

#e "aintained his oinion that the Paa%yand the $"ire had two distin%tly differenturoses.


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The Divine ComedyThe Divine Comedy

S%anning !eveal yea!&the e%ic'li(e %oem TheDivine Comedy)a!)itten fom *+,- to*+.*/

The %oem %e!ent! anovevie) of the attitude!&0elief!& %hilo!o%hie!& a!)ell a! the mateiala!%ect! of the medieval)old/

1ecau!e of the!eelement!& The DivineComedyha! 0ecomeunive!ally (no)n a! oneof the geate!t %oem! in)old liteatue/


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The oem is diided into three sections " " theInferno, the

Purgatorio, and theParadiso, with the Inferno being the most

widely read and studied section of The Divine Comedy.

In this segment of the oem, Dante describes a )ourney

through 9ell from the entrance at the lowest and less harsh

leel. 9is comanion for the trael is Virgil, a mentor androtector.


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Though the %oce!!of !%iitualegeneation and%uification& Dante%e%ae! him!elf to

meet 2od inParadiso/Though 3aadi!e&

Dante i! guided 0y1eatice& fo )hom

the %oem i! amemoial/


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Dante attributed all the

heaenly irtues to&eatrices soul and

imagined, in his

masteriece The Divine

Comedy, that she washis guardian angel who

/alternately berated

and encouraged him on

his search for

salation.1

The Death of Beatrice by D. G. Rossetti, Tate Gallery,

London.


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In the Inferno, Dante starts on ground leel and wor?s his way

downward he goes all the way through the earth and 9ell and ends

u at the base of the mountain of 'urgatory on the other side.

;n the to of 'urgatory there is the terrestrial aradise (the garden

of @den$, and after that he wor?s his way through the celestial

sheres.

The Diine


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The wor? is

written in terza

rimaa comle-erse form in

entameter, with

interloc?ing triads

rhyming aba bcb

cdcetc.

Nel mezzo del cammin dinostra vita mi ritrovai per unaselva oscura ch la diritta

via era smarrita.Ahi quanto a dir qual era cosa dura esta selvaselvaggia e aspra e forte chenel pensier rinova la paura!

Tant' amara che poco pimorte; ma per trattar del ench'i' vi trovai dir" de l'altrecose ch'i' v'ho scorte.


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Inte%etation! of InfenoInte%etation! of Infeno

Liteal: a vision of a "an-s *ourneythrough #ellAllegoical: des%ri0es a ,hristian soul

traveling through a state of sin in sear%hof rede"tion and 0lissfulness4oal: des%ri0es what awaits sinful souls

and en%ourages the living to seesalvation


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Dantes nine circles of hell

o2imbo, which includes eole waiting to see if they enter heaen ordescend to hell.

o2ustful, 6luttonous, Aaricious. These three circles reresent sins

of wea?ness. They are mostly harmful things that we do to ourseles.

oBrathful, 9eretics (those who betrayed others$, and Violent. These

three circles reresent sins of malice. They were remeditated and

usually inoled actions toward other eole.

oThe 8raudulent and the Treacherous. These last two circles

reresent sins of betrayal and ride, considered the worst sins of all.

:atan, who betrayed 6od, reresents the eitome of eil.


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!a divina commedia(The Divine Comedy$ by Dante

Alighieri is in no way a comedic literary wor?. The only

term that relates to the oem is diine.Eet, it is suggested that Dante himself simly called this

wor?


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