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The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
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The Divine Comedy Written between 1308 and 1321 Central epic poem of Italian literature Divided into three parts
Inferno (Hell) Purgatorio (Purgatory) Paradiso (Paradise)
Represents the journey of the soul toward God
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Inferno Divided into 9 circles of suffering First Circle – Limbo
Unbaptized and virtuous pagans Not bad people, but no hope for reconciliation
Second Circle – Lust Souls blown about by violent storm
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Inferno (cont.) Third Circle – Gluttons
Those who loved food
Fourth Circle – Avaricious and Prodigal Avaricious – hoarded possessions Prodigal – squandered possessions
The Fifth Circle – Wrathful Don’t fight!
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Inferno (cont.) Sixth Circle – Heretics
Rejection of beliefs of a religious body
Seventh Circle – Violent Broken into three rings
Outer Ring – violent against people and property Middle Ring – Suicides Inner Ring – violent against God, violent against
nature, violent against order
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Inferno (cont.) Eighth Circle – Fraudulent
Guilty of a deliberate evil
Ninth Circle – Traitors Those who betray someone in a special
relationship
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Purgatorio Tells of a climb
up a mountain where there is much spiritual growth
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Paradiso Heaven! Tells of Dante’s vision of heaven