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terza rima
interlocking tercets
contrapasso
The punishment has to fit the crime
leopard
lust
lion
pride
she-wolf
avarice
epic simile
formal, sustained simile
chiasmus
greek term, X form
fainting
overwhelmed, not mature enough
pagan poets
ovid, homer, horace, lucan
only smile in Inferno
Virgil seeing Dante with the poets
translatio imperii
translation of empire
translatio studii
translation of intellectual spirit
translatio amoris
translation of love
Francesca and Paola
brought together by reading Lancelot and Guinevere, blames other people for her issues, converted to lust by romantic narrative, sympathetic image
Ciacco
idea of envy and is center of political sphere in Florence, prophesizes political unrest and Dante’s exile
second circle
lustful
third circle
gluttonous
fourth circle
avarice (greed) and prodigal (spending too much money)
fifth circle
wrathful
sin of incontinence
lack of control over oneself
wrath of intemperance
trying not to harm anyone by lashes out, no malic
Filippo Argenti
former political enemies with Dante, Virgil pushes him off the boat, Dante is harsh with him
Gates of Dis
mixture of Greek myth and Biblical, guarded by Medusa and Furies, gates slammed in Virgil’s face (role reversal)
Virgil closing Dante’s eyes from Medusa
don’t get stuck on the surface level of the poem
angel messenger opening gates
Hell is an act of God’s divine justice
Epicurus
the highest good is happiness (peace of mind, not pleasure)
Farinata and Calvalcante
Farinata: soul dies with the body, enemy of Dante
Calvalcante: friend of Dante in Vita Nuova, wants to know what happened to Guido, sight of the damned cannot see the present but can see the future
moral structure of Hell
violence against neighbor, self, God
simple fraud
treachery
seventh circle
violence
Pier della Vigna
makes us feel bad for him, lost reputation, put in jail, and then killed himself, wants to rehabilitate his reputation as confidant and minister of Fredrick II
Capaneus
any violence against a higher power/what you believe in (cries out against Jupiter)
the old man of Crete
how rivers of Hell came to be (gold-silver-bronze-iron), allegory of historical degeneration (classical perspective) and allegory of redemption and hop (christian perspective)
Simonists and Ecclesiastical offices
inversion of baptism (fire feet)
Diviners, astrologers, magicians
heads turned around, silent crying, Tiresias
farse humor
farting humor, time in Hell degrades you, language is a sign of humanity and misused by sinners
Malacoda
tricked by Navarrese, lies about the bridge
Vanni Fucci
bit by serpent, turned to ash and rises, similar to Adam and Eve, metaphoric punishment, thieves
Ulysses
false counselor, parallel journeys between the two (epic author/poetic flight and epic character/flight)
Ulysses’ speech
Creates hierarchy, prefers seeking knowledge to domesticity (contrasts Virgil’s Aenid), doesn’t understand boundaries, constructs himself as hero, nautical imagery
Guido da Montefeltro
retires from fraudulent counseling and joins Franciscan order but Pope Bonovisto 8th convinces him to reengage with military affairs, inverts Dante’s journey, a “new Ulysses”, uses nautical imagery
psychomachia
struggle for the soul
Canto 28
slaughterhouse canto, the ineffable, Mohammed (religious division) and Bertran de Born (political division), sowers of scandal
Geri del Bello
Dante’s relative that was murdered, struggles with need for vengeance and knowing God’s ability to have vengeance
Master Adam and Sinon
better to be a liar or a counterfeiter of coins? Dante gets caught up in their argument
the giants
look like towers in a city, rendered immobile, foreshadow Lucifer, stubbornly encased in sin, size represents pride and rebelliousness
Nimrod’s speech
corrupted speech (mimics Tower of Babel)
meditation on the vernacular
Do I have adequate language to describe this part of Hell? The ineffable
Antenora
betrayed Troy to the Greeks
Bocca
Dante kicks him in the head, offers fame, Bocca wants anonymity
Ugolino
sinner chewing on other sinners, parody of communion, did he truly eat his kids or starve to death?
Lucifer
encased in ice, cannot move, has big wings that he flaps, three faces eating Judas, Cassius, and Brutus, anti-trinity
Cato
figure of freedom and liberty, read Plato before committing suicide and resisted Caesar, guardian of purgatory
Casella
invocation of Biblical and classical allusions, signs song that overwhelms Dante, chased away by Cato
the nature of souls
Plato: plurality of souls
Dante: humans have one soul, divided into three parts
Sordello (4 apostrophes)
Italy itself (corrupt), Church (tampering in temporal affairs), God (allowed Italy to slip into bad state), Florence (ironically talking about it)
stars
faith, hope, and charity (3 theological virtues)
guardians of Gates
penance, penitence, contrition, confession, and satisfaction = absolution, puts 7 P’s on Dante’s head (weight)
gold and silver key
absolve sins and priestly judgment