HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Guelphs And Ghibellines, Geoffrey Chaucer, Midlife Crisis
12 Nov 2020
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The author most associated with the dawn of the late middle ages. His de monarchia argued mostly for imperial power. More beloved as a poet writing in the vernacular. There could be no renaissance, boccaccio or chaucer without his divine comedy: the divine comedy. Consists of 3 parts: the inferno, the purgatorio, the paradiso. The poem begins with dante in a mid-life crisis. He stumbles upon a hellmouth: circles of hell. He discovers 9 downward sloping circles of hell. It is made for unbaptized infants and virtuous pagans. Too early to be saved by christ but he did his best. Cleopatra is found in circle 2, of lust: punishments. Gluttons are drowned in their own filth in circle 3. Greedy fight each other to death in circle 4. Dante is not above putting his own enemies in hell. This is despite the fact that even if they are still alive.
