Background

Friday,
October 24, 2008

10:03 AM

P331

Dante: Italian

Early Italian
Renaissance

Power split

Holy
Roman Emperor in Germany (leader during his life)

Pope

Dante was exiled
after another group came into power

Poem is an exiled
poem

Dante was exiled out
of the dark wood of error

Can be read on a
personal level

But everyone is
trying to find their way home

Each circle is like
a terriace ("Bolgia")

Jerusalem is at the
center of the world

Needs to go through
hell to get to Mt. Purgatory which leads to heaven

Starts p338

Going to side by
side each Kanto with a modern image

Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy>

Pasted

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/dante/inferno_illus/Template.htm

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/dante/images/magnifier3.html