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About Dante’s Comedy

About Dante’s Comedy. There are three parts or canticas : Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso Each part is composed of 33 cantos (with an additional canto serving as an introduction). About Dante’s Comedy. Each verse has three lines (or tercets).

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About Dante’s Comedy

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  1. About Dante’s Comedy • There are three parts or canticas: • Inferno • Purgatorio • Paradiso • Each part is composed of 33 cantos (with an additional canto serving as an introduction).

  2. About Dante’s Comedy • Each verse has three lines (or tercets). • Terza rima (“third rhyme”) is used (a three-line stanza using chain rhyme, e.g., A-B-A, B-C-B, etc.).

  3. An Overview of Dante’s Inferno

  4. The Sins of the she-wolf(Circles 2 to 5)

  5. The city of dis(Circles 6 to 9)

  6. The Sins of the LION(Circle 7)

  7. The Sins of the LEOPARD(Circles 8 AND 9)

  8. Tomorrow (Tuesday) • Please be ready for a discussion of Cantos 1 to 5 of Inferno. Any English translation will do. • You can access the full text translations online at: • http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1001/1001-h/1001-h.htm (has the Longfellow translation) • http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html (has three translations: Longfellow, Cary,and Mandelbaum)

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