In your warm-up section, list as many as sins as you can think. This is an individual activity, do not use your peers Gluttony Lust Wrath Envy Sloth Greed Pride
Florence, Italy May/June 1265 low-aristocracy family (not very wealthy) of the white guelfo party.guelfo party Opposed pope Bonifacio’s expansion policy Two options: Fine and Exile or Death Dante’s first studies were: rhetoric grammar philosophy literature theology
Divine Comedy Divine: to explain the kind of content of the poem and to celebrate the greatness and beauty of the work. Comedy: work representing a story with a happy ending; to them, “comedy” didn’t = funny Models: Bible, and Canto VI of Virgil’s Aeneid
In the Divine Comedy, Dante travels through three transmundane kingdoms Hell (Inferno) Purgatory (Purgatorio) Heaven (Paradiso) The moral and religious conversion of Dante symbolizes the conversion of the whole of mankind; Dante represents all of us