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Dante's Inferno. Catos I, II, VI, and XXXIV. About Dante. Married Gemma di Manetto Donati , but claimed to be in love with Beatirce Portinari whom he met at age nine. She died in 1920 but was his muse throughout his poetry and he never mentioned Gemma.
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Dante's Inferno Catos I, II, VI, and XXXIV
About Dante Married Gemma di ManettoDonati, but claimed to be in love with BeatircePortinari whom he met at age nine. She died in 1920 but was his muse throughout his poetry and he never mentioned Gemma. He had several children with Gemma; Jacopo, Pietro, Giovanni and Antonia. He became a pharmacist to further his political career, although he accomplished little. Dante did not pay a fine for actions against Pope Boniface and was exiled until he paid the fine, and if he returned to Florence without paying it, he would be burned at the stake. He later wrote violent letters to Henry VII, and his sentence was never revoked.
Cato XXXIV:Summary Dante has to travel on his guide’s back into the last layer of the Inferno, because he is exhausted. Once there, they see sinners of the worst kind frozen in the ice in every way; twisted, contorted. Satan is there in the center, and he beats his wings which create the wind that freezes the sinners into the ice. He has three heads, all a perversion of the Trinity, the center red, one white, and one black. In each of his mouths, he chews a sinner in eternal pain; one Judas Iscariot, one Brutus, and one Cassius. Once they have seen it all, they climb over Satan’s hairy flank, and go through the center of gravity and emerge from Hell. They climb back until they reach Purgatory, which is then a shining world.
Evil “He wept from his six eyes, and down three chins the tears ran mixed with bloody froth and pus. In every mouth he worked a broken sinner between his rake-like teeth. Thus he kept three in eternal pain at his eternal dinner.” He exists to cause pain, torture, and punish, and every sinful thing flows down to him. He punishes eternally and is ugly and revolting.
Good “My Guide and I crossed over and began to mount that little known and lightless road to ascend into the shining world again.” Hell is lightless and Purgatory is shining, which shows that even though it’s somewhere between Heaven and Hell, it has more good characteristics comparatively.
