1. Dante’s Divine comedy The Inferno 1320

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Review:
Who are:
Virgil
Beatrice
Paola and Francesco
Minos

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

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

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

17. 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)