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What are the three beasts in Canto I, and what do they represent? - ✔✔The leopard represents the
sins of youth
the lion represents the sins of manhood
the she-wolf represents the malicious sins of age.
Dante doubts his worth to journey on this "great enterprise," and he specifically says he is "not Aeneas .
. . not Paul." What does Virgil tell Dante that motivates him to press on? - ✔✔Virgil tells Dante that
He was summoned by Beatrice,
Who was summoned by Lucy,
Who was summoned by Mary.
The story of these three ladies intervening on behalf of Dante restores his courage.
Who are in the Vestibule? - ✔✔those who never chose to follow God or those who chose to hate Him
What is the river that Dante and Virgil cross over from the Vestibule to Limbo? Who is the ferryman? -
✔✔The river is Acheron and Cheron is the Ferryman.
Which fellow Italian(s) does Dante speak to in the second circle of lust? What is their story? -
✔✔Paolo and Francesca: they were murdered for pursuing a forbidden love with eachother.
What sinners are in the Third Circle? - ✔✔The Gluttonous
, Why are the spendthrifts and hoarders faceless in the Fourth Circle? - ✔✔They are faceless to match
their minds which are unable to distinguish between things that are valuable or not.
How does Dante react to Filippo Argenti's attack while crossing the river Styx in Phlegyas's boat?
How does Virgil react to Dante's reaction? - ✔✔Dante is thoroughly enraged, and he rails against
Filippo. Virgil kisses Dante and blesses him for his righteous anger.
Why can the Heavenly messenger easily open the gates to the City of Dis when Virgil cannot? - ✔✔Virgil
represents human wisdom, philosophy, and poetry. He is powerful, but his powers are limited in the
face of anger's resistance. At the command of heaven, there cannot be resistance.
According to Farinata, what can the damned in Hell know about events on Earth? - ✔✔Those in hell
can dimly see glimmers of the future, but nothing in the present.
How does the image of the Minotaur and centaurs help us understand violence? - ✔✔Mixing the
human form with beasts is an image of what violence does to us.
How does Dante define or explain the sins of those boiling in the River of Blood? - ✔✔those souls
were violent against their fellow men for the sake of spoil.
In Canto XIII, Dante talks to the withered tree, Pier delle Vigne, which tells him why he is punished as a
tree. What does Dante learn about the sin of suicide from Pier? - ✔✔suicide is violence against self
and it distorts the image of God.
In the desert of burning sand where fire falls from above, Dante sees blasphemers, sodomites, and
usurers. What do these sins have in common that makes them sins of violence? - ✔✔These three
sins are all motivated by passion moving against the order of God's creation.
What does Scripture teach about violence (Gen. 4)? - ✔✔Scripture doesn't rely heavily on the
term violence, but it does explicitly command against acting by passion and rage.
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