Dante’s Inferno

1. Dante’s Inferno FLT 251 12 October 2011

2. 1499 1613 1492 1513/1532 1308-1321

6. allegory, n.

7. allegory, n. • Description of a subject under the guise of some other subject of aptly suggestive resemblance.

8. allegory, n. • Description of a subject under the guise of some other subject of aptly suggestive resemblance. • An instance of such description; a figurative sentence, discourse, or narrative, in which properties and circumstances attributed to the apparent subject really refer to the subject they are meant to suggest; an extended or continued metaphor.

9. Latin

10. Latin Italian

12. Ghibellines Guelphs

13. Ghibellines Guelphs 13th Century

14. Ghibellines Imperial Guelphs Papel 13th Century

15. Ghibellines Imperial Guelphs Papel 1260

16. Ghibellines Imperial Guelphs Papel 1266

17. 1265= Ghibellines Imperial Guelphs Papel 1266

18. “Dante grew up in a city brimming with postwar pride and expansionism, eager to extend its political control throughout Tuscany. Florentines compared themselves with Rome and the civilization of the ancient city-states.”

19. BrunettoLatini

20. Brunetto Latini

21. Brunetto Latini • Returning exile

22. Brunetto Latini • Returning exile • Most influential man of his generation (not just meeting Dante, but his generation)

23. Brunetto Latini • Returning exile • Most influential man of his generation (not just meeting Dante, but his generation) • Knowledge and skill should be at the service of the city-state.

24. Brunetto Latini • Returning exile • Most influential man of his generation (not just meeting Dante, but his generation) • Knowledge and skill should be at the service of the city-state. • Supporter of the Aristotelian idea that man is a social (political) being and would be worse off without a state.

25. Brunetto Latini • Returning exile • Most influential man of his generation (not just meeting Dante, but his generation) • Knowledge and skill should be at the service of the city-state. • Supporter of the Aristotelian idea that man is a social (political) being and would be worse off without a state. • Wrote in French.

26. Brunetto Latini • Returning exile • Most influential man of his generation (not just meeting Dante, but his generation) • Knowledge and skill should be at the service of the city-state. • Supporter of the Aristotelian idea that man is a social (political) being and would be worse off without a state. • Wrote in French. • The Bible, Aristotle, Seneca, and particular Cicero as part of a veneration of Rome.

27. Brunetto Latini • Returning exile • Most influential man of his generation (not just meeting Dante, but his generation) • Knowledge and skill should be at the service of the city-state. • Supporter of the Aristotelian idea that man is a social (political) being and would be worse off without a state. • Wrote in French. • The Bible, Aristotle, Seneca, and particular Cicero as part of a veneration of Rome. • The importance of having one’s memory survive

28. Brunetto Latini • Returning exile • Most influential man of his generation (not just meeting Dante, but his generation) • Knowledge and skill should be at the service of the city-state. • Supporter of the Aristotelian idea that man is a social (political) being and would be worse off without a state. • Wrote in French. • The Bible, Aristotle, Seneca, and particular Cicero as part of a veneration of Rome. • The importance of having one’s memory survive • Canto XV of the Inferno.

29. Guido Cavalcanti

30. Guido Cavalcanti

31. Dante’s bravery at age 18. Guido Cavalcanti

32. Dante’s bravery at age 18. • Cavalcati was a great scholar and promoter of Italian. Guido Cavalcanti

33. Dante’s bravery at age 18. • Cavalcati was a great scholar and promoter of Italian. • In Chapter XXX of the Vita nuova Dante states that it was thanks to Cavalcanti that he wrote in Italian. Guido Cavalcanti

34. Dante’s bravery at age 18. • Cavalcati was a great scholar and promoter of Italian. • In Chapter XXX of the Vita nuova Dante states that it was thanks to Cavalcanti that he wrote in Italian. • Vita nuova was dedicated to Cavalcanti who Dante called his “primo amico” (best friend). Guido Cavalcanti

35. Dante’s bravery at age 18. • Cavalcati was a great scholar and promoter of Italian. • In Chapter XXX of the Vita nuova Dante states that it was thanks to Cavalcanti that he wrote in Italian. • Vita nuova was dedicated to Cavalcanti who Dante called his “primo amico” (best friend). • In a political post at a later date Dante concurred with Cavalcanti’s exile. Guido Cavalcanti

36. Dante’s bravery at age 18. • Cavalcati was a great scholar and promoter of Italian. • In Chapter XXX of the Vita nuova Dante states that it was thanks to Cavalcanti that he wrote in Italian. • Vita nuova was dedicated to Cavalcanti who Dante called his “primo amico” (best friend). • In a political post at a later date Dante concurred with Cavalcanti’s exile. • Cavalcanti dies of malaria in exile in 1300. Guido Cavalcanti

37. Dante’s bravery at age 18. • Cavalcati was a great scholar and promoter of Italian. • In Chapter XXX of the Vita nuova Dante states that it was thanks to Cavalcanti that he wrote in Italian. • Vita nuova was dedicated to Cavalcanti who Dante called his “primo amico” (best friend). • In a political post at a later date Dante concurred with Cavalcanti’s exile. • Cavalcanti dies of malaria in exile in 1300. • Canto X in the Inferno – conversation with Guido’s father. Guido Cavalcanti

38. Beatrice

39. Beatrice

40. Beatrice • Claims to only have seen her twice (when both were nine and eighteen).

41. Beatrice • Claims to only have seen her twice (when both were nine and eighteen). • La vita nuova– story of first sight at nine years old, salutation at eighteen, Dante concealing his love, crisis when she withholds her greeting, fear that she is making fun of him, poet rises above the anguish to sing her praises, poets premonition of the sadness to come, Beatrice’s death, Dante’s mourning. In total a strangely impersonal text.

42. Beatrice • Claims to only have seen her twice (when both were nine and eighteen). • La vita nuova– story of first sight at nine years old, salutation at eighteen, Dante concealing his love, crisis when she withholds her greeting, fear that she is making fun of him, poet rises above the anguish to sing her praises, poets premonition of the sadness to come, Beatrice’s death, Dante’s mourning. In total a strangely impersonal text. • Dante becomes interested in philosophy and begins to eschew the noble aesthetic of La vita nuova and replaces it with a harsher, colder, and more pragmatic understanding of the world known as “dolce stilnuovo”.

43. Beatrice • Claims to only have seen her twice (when both were nine and eighteen). • La vita nuova– story of first sight at nine years old, salutation at eighteen, Dante concealing his love, crisis when she withholds her greeting, fear that she is making fun of him, poet rises above the anguish to sing her praises, poets premonition of the sadness to come, Beatrice’s death, Dante’s mourning. In total a strangely impersonal text. • Dante becomes interested in philosophy and begins to eschew the noble aesthetic of La vita nuova and replaces it with a harsher, colder, and more pragmatic understanding of the world known as “dolce stilnuovo”. • Studies hard and eventually writes that “the love of philosophy banished every other thought”.

44. Beatrice • Claims to only have seen her twice (when both were nine and eighteen). • La vita nuova– story of first sight at nine years old, salutation at eighteen, Dante concealing his love, crisis when she withholds her greeting, fear that she is making fun of him, poet rises above the anguish to sing her praises, poets premonition of the sadness to come, Beatrice’s death, Dante’s mourning. In total a strangely impersonal text. • Dante becomes interested in philosophy and begins to eschew the noble aesthetic of La vita nuova and replaces it with a harsher, colder, and more pragmatic understanding of the world known as “dolce stilnuovo”. • Studies hard and eventually writes that “the love of philosophy banished every other thought”. • In the Convivio he criticizes his previous depiction of Beatrice.

45. Beatrice • Claims to only have seen her twice (when both were nine and eighteen). • La vita nuova– story of first sight at nine years old, salutation at eighteen, Dante concealing his love, crisis when she withholds her greeting, fear that she is making fun of him, poet rises above the anguish to sing her praises, poets premonition of the sadness to come, Beatrice’s death, Dante’s mourning. In total a strangely impersonal text. • Dante becomes interested in philosophy and begins to eschew the noble aesthetic of La vita nuova and replaces it with a harsher, colder, and more pragmatic understanding of the world known as “dolce stilnuovo”. • Studies hard and eventually writes that “the love of philosophy banished every other thought”. • In the Convivio he criticizes his previous depiction of Beatrice. • She reappears in The Divine Comedy as the figure who has called Dante on his journey.

46. Guelf

47. Guelf Blacks Whites

48. Guelf Blacks (pro-Papal influence) Whites (anti-Papel influence)

49. Exile Guelf Blacks (pro-Papal influence) Whites (anti-Papel influence) Dante