Word: inferno
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...allegory of the eighth and ninth cantos of the Inferno; the City of Dis, its demons, the Furies, Medusa, the opposition to the entrance of the Poets; the heavenly messenger...
...allegorical significance of this introduction to the Inferno is plain. Dante finds himself wandering helplessly in the dark, wretched forest of evil, and in order to reach the light attempts to climb the mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside...
...scenes of suffering in the picture of the inferno are revolting and almost incredible, but Dante's purpose of leading men to righteousness was a tremendous one, and not to be attained by gentle means...
...study the advice given in the text. Only the highest soul can give us real, good advice; or a man like the apostle Paul or the apostle John. But one can give advice from the lower part of his nature. I is in this way that Dante's Inferno had its origin. The experience of a man enables him to give advice. So, here. as a result of a life that has been selfish, there is powerful advice towards a set of experiences diametrically opposed. The unselfish life is the realization of self through self - sacrifice. Sacrifice must come first...
...Recent Dante Literature," there is an excellent criticism of Professor Norton's translation of the Inferno...