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❐ Notes
Dante's Life / Notes About The Divine Comedy
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❐ Notes on the Structure of Hell in Dante's Inferno
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❐ Discussion Questions for Dante's Inferno, Cantos I - III (write your answers on your own paper)
❐ Discussion
Dante's Inferno,
Cantos
I - III
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questions:
1) What
did you
notice at the beginning of Canto II?
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1) What
did you
you believe
notice atinthe
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thebeginning
existence of Canto
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2) Do you believe in hell?
❐ Discussion Questions for Dante's Inferno, Cantos IV - X
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❐ Discussion Questions for Dante's Inferno, Cantos XI - XX
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❐ Discussion Question for One of the Cantos XXI - XXX
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❐ Quiz on Cantos I - XXX
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Notes About Dante's Life
Directions: Use assisted notetaking to record the information about Dante's life presented in class.
By Date:
By Person:
By Significant Events/Places:
1265
Dante Alighieri
Florence, Italy
1274
Alighiero and Bella Alighieri
La Vita Nuova
1282
Beatrice Portinari
study of theology; well-versed in
classical literature and philosophy
1283
elected to serve as a prior, the
city's highest office
c. 1285
Guido Cavalcanti
1290
Brunetto Latini
1300
Gemma Donati
1302
Giovanni, Pietro, Iacopo, Antonia
White Guelphs: opposed to intervention by Pope or his representative, Charles of Valois, in Florentine politics
1308-1321
the White Guelphs
banished from Florence for life
1321
Pope Boniface VIII
wrote La Divina Commedia (the
Divine Comedy): Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
1337
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Guelphs (Black and White)
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Notes About The Divine Comedy
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Notes on The Divine Comedy
The Inferno is the first of three parts of The Divine Comedy (the other two parts are Purgatorio and Paradiso).
The entire work was completed (when?)________________________________________.
The Divine Comedy is (about what?)___________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________.
Dante the author creates Dante the character as the man who has drifted from his path in
life.
Dante (the character)'s guide on the journey is ____________. A model for this character
may have been based on a woman he saw only twice, at age 9 and age 18. Beatrice sends Virgil
to guide Dante through the first part of the journey.
Look for the following throughout the work:
-preoccupation with the number 3
33 cantos in each part
3 line stanzas (called ______________)
3 days on the journey
-the journey's setting/time is Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday
(the triduum of the holiest Christian season) in the year __________.
The Inferno is set in _____; Purgatorio is set in __________; Paradiso is set in _________.
Dante's Inferno (hell) has (how many?)____ circles. Each circle contains a category of sin,
the sinners who have died after committing that sin (without regret), and the punishment for
that sin experienced by the sinners.
Dante uses ____________ to teach a moral lesson. What is allegory?
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The Structure of Hell in Dante's Inferno
Directions: Diagrams from various sources have been included for you. However,
you may want to draw one of your own as you proceed through the book to help you
remember the different stages or you may want to search for additional examples from
alternate sources.
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Discussion Questions for Dante's Inferno, Cantos IV - X
Directions: Write the answers to these questions on a separate piece of paper and keep this sheet and your
answers together. You may want to make a note of the line number where you found the answer, if applicable. You also need to complete the graphic organizer chart on the back of this sheet. Due:_____________
Canto IV
1. Why is Virgil's face pale after he tells Dante they must go onward down into Hell?
2. Who is the Mighty One mentioned by Virgil who descended into Hell and was the first to bring human
souls to salvation?
3. Virgil, and those like him, can get no closer to Heaven than this first circle of Hell (called Limbo.) Do
you think that is fair? How far do you think Human Reason can take you in life and beyond?
Canto V
4. Virgil and Dante are entering the first level of Hell, dedicated to the sins of incontinence. What is the
definition of incontinence?
5. Dante talks to a couple swept up in their punishment in the second circle of Hell. What explanation
does she give for the temptation that caused them to commit their sin (adultery) in the first place?
Canto VI
6. At the end of the Canto, Virgil and Dante discuss a Second Coming, when each one in Hell will be
judged and hear "the edict of Eternity." Dante asks if the final judgement will be the same, more, or less
than what it is now (i.e. will the punishments be the same, more severe, or lighter than the ones that the
sinners suffer now in Hell). What do you think of Virgil's answer?
Canto VII
7. Who are the unexpected type of people that Dante finds among the greedy sinners (hoarders)? Why do
you think it surprises him to see such people guilty of such a sin?
8. Prior to reading this, had you ever thought of Dame Fortune (Lady Luck) as someone associated with
God to be "officially" in charge of change? How do you view the idea of luck as it touches on your
life?
9. What does sullen mean? Why are the sullen people considered sinful? What is their punishment for
their sin?
Canto VIII
10. Up to this time Virgil has always been able to talk his way through obstacles and gatekeepers (i.e. Charon, Minos, Phlegyas). Since he represents Human Reason, his "voice of reason" appears to persuade the
three to let him continue on with Dante. Why do you think Human Reason cannot talk his way past the
gates of the City of Dis?
Canto IX
11. How do Virgil and Dante get through the gates of the City of Dis?
Canto X
12. Why can the heretic see the future but not see the present?
Gate; shore
of Acheron
Lack of
commitment
Chase
swirling
banner;
stung by
insects;
worms eat
tears, blood,
pus
“The one
who made
the denial”
Terrain
Sin
Punishment
Poets,
heroes,
scholars,
Cannot
see God
Nonelack of
baptism
Enameled
green
4
1-Limbo
Francesca and
Paolo
Blown about
uncontrollably,
like birds
caught in a
storm at sea
Dark wind
5
II
Ciacco
Pig-like and
dog-like,
wallow in
mud and
are gnawed
byCerebus
Gluttony
Mud, rain,
slush
6
III
Cannot see
individual
sinners
Eternal
jousts with
boulders
Hoarding
and
spending
Dusty plain
7
IV
Filippo
Argenti
Wrath and
sullenness
Marsh of
Styx
7-8
V
Adapted from Stephany, Notes. The Divine Comedy, Lesson 4, Handout 6, The Center for Learning.
Notes
Sinners
3
Vestibule
Canto
Circle
9
At the
city of
Dis,
Virgil is
repulsed
by
devils.
The
Furies
and
Medusa
threaten
Dante.
Because
Virgil
can’t get
in, an
angel
comes to
open the
gate.
Farinata &
Cavalcanti
Burning iron
tombs
Heresy
Inside city
walls
9-10
Graphic Organizer for Cantos III - XX
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Discussion Questions for Dante's Inferno, Cantos XI - XX
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answers together. You may want to make a note of the line number where you found the answer, if applicable. You also need to complete the graphic organizer chart on the back of this sheet. Due:_____________
Canto XI
1. Of the two sins of malice, why does God loathe fraud more than violence?
2. If we took the sin of usury and put it in modern terms, what type of people from our society might we
find being punished in the third part of Circle 7 of Dante's Hell? Give a few examples and explain why
you think they would be there.
Canto XII
3. What is a centaur?
4. Who is Chiron?
Canto XIII
5. Describe in detail how the suicides are punished.
Canto XIV
6. Describe a symbol used in this Canto by Dante (i.e. the burning plain, the giant Old Man of Crete, the
wood, the river, or one you find on your own).
7. In what three ways were the naked souls located in relation to the burning sands? (You can quote the
exact lines from the text of the poem if you can locate them.)
Canto XV
8. Ser Brunetto Latino is one of the sinners on the burning plain doomed to roam without pause. Dante
wants him to sit and chat for a while. Why does Ser Brunetto refuse to stop?
9. Write the dictionary definition of sodomy.
Canto XVI
10. What do you think of the various sinners who talk to Dante and demand to be remembered in the world
above? Why do you think this is a repeated request by the sinners in the Hell that Dante created?
11. What does Dante write about truth and lies just before he describes the monster that is flying up towards them? Why does he mention truth and lies?
Canto XVII
12. In this Canto, Dante uses several similes (i.e. (1) Life is like (2) a box of chocolates (3) you never know
what you're going to get.) Select two or more of the similes in this Canto and rewrite them in the following format, using the above example as a model: (1) the actual action/thing in The Inferno is like
(2) the action/thing taken from the educated Italian reader's experience (3) what the two have in common.
Canto XVIII
13. What is the punishment for pimps?
14. Towards the end of the Canto, Dante uses very explicit language toward a sinner. Why do you think he
changes his writing style at this point?
Canto XIX
15. Write the dictionary definition of simony and avarice.
16. Why do you think Dante is so angry and appalled that even a Pope is guilty of such a sin?
Canto XX
17. Why is Tiresias in this bolgia in Circle 8 of Dante's Hell?
18. Name at least two other pieces of world literature in which Tiresias appears as a character.
11
In the
shade of the
tomb of the
heretical Pope
Anastasius,
Virgil
explains the
structure
of Hell:
Incontinence
(circles II-IV),
Violence (VII),
and Malice,
broken into
Fraud (VIII)
and Treason
(IX). Limbo
(I) and
Heresy (VI),
as failures
of belief, are
Christian
additions
to this
essentially
AristoteleanCiceronian
scheme for
classifying
offenses.
Alexander
the Great
and many
others
Stand in
river-are
shot by
Centaurs if
they move
Violence
against
neighbors
12
VII
Ring 1
River of
blood
Pier delle
Vigne
Dead trees,
broken by
Harpies,
bleed
Violence
against
selves
13
VII
Ring 2
Fruitless
wood
Capaneus
Blasphemers
are on
their backs,
exposed to
fiery flakes
Violence
against God
14
VII
Ring 3
Burning sand
3 noble
Florentines
Brunetto
Latino
Sodomites
can never
stop
moving
Violence
against
nature
15-16
Usurers
sit on
burning
sand,
staring
at money
bags
Money
lenders
of
Florence
and
Padua
Violence
against
art
17
Adapted from Stephany, Notes. The Divine Comedy, Lesson 4, Handout 6, The Center for Learning.
Notes
Sinners
Punishment
Sin
Terrain
Canto
Circle
Jason
Venedico
Caccianeimico
Run in
opposite
directions
whipped by
demons
Pandering and
Seduction
18
VIII
Bolgia 1
Thais
Alessio
Interminel
da Lucca
Submersion
in the dung
pit
Flattery
VIII
Bolgia 2
Dung pit
Nicholas III
Heads down
in holes,
tongues of
fire on their
feet
Simony
19
VIII
Bolgia 3
Fiery holes
Several
soothsayers
and wizards
Heads
twisted
backwards
Sorcery
20
VIII
Bolgia 4
Graphic Organizer for Cantos XI - XX
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Discussion Questions for Dante's Inferno, Cantos XXI - XXX
Directions: You need to create a question for the canto you have been assigned. You also need to complete
the graphic organizer chart on the back of this sheet. Due:_____________
Assigned Canto #_______
Question:
Answer:
Submerged, torn by devils if
they emerge
One of Santa
Zita’s elders
(a Senator
of Lucca)
is thrown
down into
the pitch
At the
end, the
demons are
dismissed
with a fart
from the
head demon
Punishment
Sinners
Two demons
fight over
a sinner,
fall into the
pitch, and
have to be
rescued by
their fellow
demons
Two jovial
friars named
Catalano
and
Loderingo;
high priest
Caiaphas
Weighed
down by
monk’s robes,
gilded on the
outside, led
on the inside;
one sinner is
crucified on
the ground
and stepped
on
Hypocrisy
A circular
path
23
VIII
Bolgia 6
25
Vanni Fucci
Reptiles tie
thieves’ hands
behind their
backs; thieves
bitten by
snakes burn,
then revive
from the ashes
Theft
Cacus=a
centaur
wrapped
in snakes
with a firebreathing
dragon on
his back,
helps punish
the thieves
Five Noble
Thieves of
Florence
Thieves’
bodies are
transformed
into reptiles
and vice
versa
Chasm filled with snakes,
reptiles, and thieves
24
VIII
Bolgia 7
We read
this canto in
class.
Ulysses and
Diomede
Evil Counsel
26
VIII
Bolgia 8
Adapted from Stephany, Notes. The Divine Comedy, Lesson 4, Handout 6, The Center for Learning.
Notes
Graft
Sin
the
Navarese;
Friar Gomita
of Gallura
Boiling pitch
Terrain
22
21
VIII
Bolgia 5
Canto
Circle
Count Guido
blames Pope
Boniface III
for his sins.
Count
Guido da
Mentefeltro
27
There are
three levels
of sowers
of discord:
religious
discord,
political
discord,
and discord
between
kinsmen.
Sowers of
Discord
28
VIII
Bolgia 9
Griffolino
d’Arezzo
and
Capocchio
Falsifiers
(The
Alchemists)
29
VIII
Bolgia 10
Sinon the
Greek is
included as a
false witness
(liar).
False
Witnesses)
Counterfeiters
Falsifiers
(Evil
Impersonators
30
VIII
Bolgia 10
Graphic Organizer for Cantos XXI - XXX