Dante's Inferno Flashcards

Flashcards on Dante's Inferno

Pride

Excessive belief in one's own abilities, qualities, or importance.

Envy

The feeling of discontent or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.

Wrath

Extreme anger or violent rage.

Sloth

Reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness.

Greed

Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth or power.

Gluttony

Habitual greed or excess in eating.

Lust

Intense sexual desire.

The Divine Comedy original language

Italian Tuscan dialect

Divine

Related to God; holy or sacred.

Trinity

God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit

Divine Comedy Canticles

Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso

Types of Sins & Symbolism

Incontinence (Leopard), Violence (Lion), Fraud (She-wolf)

Terza Rima

A verse form with an interlocking rhyme scheme: ABA BCB CDC, etc.

Tercet

A stanza of three lines of poetry.

Sin

Misguided or perverted love - love directed away from God

Punishment that symbolically or ironically fits the sin.

What is Contrapasso?

Incontinence

Lack of self-restraint, especially with desires or passions

Opportunists

Souls who chose neither good nor evil.

Virtuous Pagan

A morally good person not baptized or who lived before Christ

Who is Minos?

Judge of the dead who assigns souls to Hell.

Cerberus

Three-headed dog guarding the gluttons.

Hoarder

Someone obsessed with collecting wealth

Squanderer/Waster

Someone who carelessly wastes resources.

Suicide Punishment

Turned into thorny trees, ripped apart by Harpies.

Flatterer

Someone who uses false praise to manipulate

Diviner

Fortune-tellers; their heads are twisted backward.

Four Types of Treachery

Treachery against family, country, guests, and benefactors (God).

Other names of Satan

Lucifer and Dis