2.  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

3.  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

4.  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

5.  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

6.  http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/ http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/