Background to Dante and The Divine Comedy
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Dante Alighieri | Author |
| Florence, Italy | Where was Dante born? |
| politics | Dante's family was majorly involved in _____? |
| 1301 | Year a death decree was issued for Dante and his family |
| Dante | spent rest of his life in exile after he left Florence |
| Divine Comedy | Wrote the _________ during exile |
| Italian | Which language was the Divine Comedy written in? |
| Beatrice Portinari | Who Dante spent his life loving, although he never "really" met her. |
| complex and symbolic | Two characteristics of the Divine Comedy |
| 3 | Number of Canticles |
| 33 | Number of Cantos in each Canticle |
| Inferno | Canticle 1 |
| Purgatorio | Canticle 2 |
| Paradiso | Canticle 3 |
| hell, purgatory, heaven | In the plot of the Divine Comedy, a man has to travel through 3 places in hopes to save his soul. What are the 3 places? |
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