ENGL-297 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Trojan War, Three Colours Trilogy, Folco Portinari
17 Nov 2020
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Dante"s inferno: dante chose to write his poem in his own italian dialect. Civic politics of florence during dante"s life were dominated by the strife between the two factions of the guelphs and ghibellines. Dante set the "divine comedy" on easter weekend of 1300. The year in which he himself reached the estimated halfway point of a human life. The leopard of malice, the lion of violence and ambition, and the she-wolf of inconsistence: virgil. Her angelic voice petitioned virgil to lead the pilgrim and rescue him from wandering in the wilderness of the forest. The epic poet virgil, the image of classical reason. It starts after the trojan war and tells the story of aenaeas. It"s the least awful section of hell: autobiographical elements. Dante"s exile gave him a sense of mission and prophesy. He was a banker and one of the priors of florence in 1282. Beatrice is an angelic representative of the virgin mary.
