Dante’s Divine comedy The Inferno 1320

Medieval Literature la unit objectives: Analyze Dante’s formally structured poetic form and technique: Terza Rima Vernacular Point of View Explain how Dante’s poetry—in form and content— reflects medieval values. Evaluate how linguistic translation alters a text. Analyze the irony of contrapasso.

Medieval Literature ss Unit objectives: Analyze how Dante’s poetry comes from, reflects, and alludes to historical thirteenth-century Florentine culture. Compare and contrast the medieval cultural values and institutions that Dante’s poetry reveals with those of Americans and Europeans today. Analyze how Dante’s poetry provides a revisionist history, and explore its use as contemporary propaganda.

Approximately when and where was the “Inferno” published? Review: Approximately when and where was the “Inferno” published?

How many cantos does the “Inferno” have? The whole “Divine Comedy?” Review: How many cantos does the “Inferno” have? The whole “Divine Comedy?”

Why are these three really long poems called the “Divine Comedy”? Review: Why are these three really long poems called the “Divine Comedy”?

Review: What is Terza Rima? How does that poetic structure reflect Dante’s Christianity?

Review: What is Contrapasso? How does contrapasso use the literary conventions simile and irony?

Review: What is Vernacular? Connect Dante’s use of vernacular to his purpose for writing the “Divine Comedy.”

Review: Who are: Virgil Beatrice Paola and Francesco Minos

Review: Describe how Dante- the-Author and Dante-the- Protagonist are different.

Review: What is moral redemption? Connect moral redemption to why Dante wrote the “Divine Comedy.”

Describe how the “Inferno” is propaganda. Review: Describe how the “Inferno” is propaganda.

Review: Identify the literary devices dantes uses “…the terror …/That churned in my heart’s lake…” (I, 16-17) “along with noises like the slap/Of beating hands” (III, 24) “So strong a stench surrounds the city…” (IX, 30)