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Dante Alighieri: A Product of His Age

Dante Alighieri: A Product of His Age. Introduction to the Inferno Mr. Kilbridge Tours of Hell. Presentation Outline. His years: A Time of Transition & Tumult Political World Cultural Milieu Intellectual Movements Religious Paradigm. Dante Alighieri. Florence, Italy 1265 – 1321

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Dante Alighieri: A Product of His Age

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  1. Dante Alighieri: A Product of His Age Introduction to the Inferno Mr. Kilbridge Tours of Hell

  2. Presentation Outline • His years: A Time of Transition & Tumult • Political World • Cultural Milieu • Intellectual Movements • Religious Paradigm

  3. Dante Alighieri • Florence, Italy • 1265 – 1321 • Period and location of Transition and Tumult • Intellectually, politically, culturally, religiously, economically

  4. Political World • Florence, Italian City-State • Local Issues: • Merchants v. Aristocracy • Guelfs v. Ghibellines (previous generation) • White Guelfs v. Black Guelfs • Dante was a city Prior (one of 6 leaders of the city) • Boniface VIII supports Blacks. • Exiled in 1301 (Verona 1304, died in Ravenna • Larger Issues: • Papacy v. Holy Roman Empire • Frederick Hohenstaufen, King of Sicily, HRE, wants control N. Italy, papal states would be surrounded • The Importance of Exile as a theme in the Comedia

  5. Cultural Milieu • Renaissance/ High Middle Ages • “Courtly Love” of Beatrice • Chivalry • La Vita Nuova • Personal insight into Suffering and Ecstasy

  6. Mirror case, courtly scenes. Paris, first third of the 14th century. Carved ivory. Department of Decorative Arts, Richelieu. (source: Wikipedia)

  7. Lovers, Pulled in a Basket, Kristan of Hamle Codex Manesse, 1305-1340 (source: Wikipedia)

  8. Intellectual Movements • Renaissance – Ad Fontes – Transition • Virgil, poet of the Aeneid, serves as his guide • Founding of Rome is his story (empire & Church)

  9. Madonna and Child, Duccio di Buoninsegna, c. 1300 (source: Wikipedia, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Benoid Madonna, Leonardo da Vinci, 1478 (source: Wikipedia, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

  10. Religious Paradigm • Journey of the Soul • Plato, Odysseus, Augustine (J. Campbell “Monomyth”?) • Autobiographical? • Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), Heaven (Paradiso) • Free Will, salvation, damnation • City of God vs. City of Man; Community vs. Individual • Prophetic literature • Symbolism  Scholasticism • Thomas Aquinas 1274 • Allegory and structure

  11. Journey of the Soul Realm of Form/God/Heaven Perversion Reversion Conversion

  12. Hero’s Journey – Joseph Campbell http://9poundhammer.blogspot.com/2009/02/heros-journey.html

  13. Ladder to Heaven

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