Exam 2 world lit dante Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

E221 World Lit I Exam 2 - Dante with 100% correct answers already graded A

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Dante's home city, exiled from in 1302 and never returned, comedy composed during exile Florence latin poet, (October 15, 70 - 19 BCE), serves as Dante's guide through inferno/ purgatory, symbolizes reason Virgil dante's idealized childhood love, awaits poet in paradise, later replaces virgil as dante's guide, symbolized heavenly wisdom beatrice "The river of lamentation", in Greek mythology, it was the river on whose banks the dead who could not pay Charon wandered...

What years did Dante live? AD What is the impact of Dante's "Divine Comedy" It is the most complete expression of the medieval theology as well as political, scientific, and philosophical thought. What is the meaning of "comedy" in this context? -Misery to happiness. -Variety of stylistic convention- not just a lofty style. What is the structure of Divine Comedy? 1. Inferno. 2. Purgatorio. 3. Paradiso. -33 Cantos each (plus intro, 100 total). -3 line stanza rh...