The First Italian Bible

Dante, Divine Comedy*

1265-1321

First book in Europe to be written in a Colloquial, especially in Italian. It’s a stepping to stone to the Bible for the common people, because the people where staving religiously and politically . Rising of Romes, the falling of the Dark ages and the raising again of the Renaissance a rebirth. Their was a longing for literacy. The rich people thought that the common people couldn’t read, when really they could read, just not Latin.

about the author

He completed Divine Comedy, which depicts an allegorical journey through inferno, pergitory, and pardise, around 1314. Dante roamed from court to court in Italy, writing and occasionally lecturing, until his death from a sudden illness in 1321.

Dante’s personal life and the writing of The Comedy were greatly influenced by the politics of late-thirteenth-century Florence. The struggle for power in Florence was a reflection of a crisis that affected all of Italy, and, in fact, most of Europe, from the twelfth century to the fourteenth century—the struggle between church and state for temporal authority. The main representative of the church was the pope, while the main representative of the state was the Holy Roman Emperor. In Florence, these two loyalties were represented by the Guelph party, which supported the papacy, and the Ghibelline party, which supported imperial power.

On a general level, the kindness and compassion of Dante the character often contrasts with the feelings of Dante the poet, who, after all, has devised excruciating torments with which to punish his characters, many of whom are historical individuals with whom Dante was acquainted in life.

1 Inferono a circle or cycle of 3x3 Intro 33 Cantary

2. Purgatory 33

3. Heaven/ Paradis 33

The Rhyme Scheme is 33 with a patter aba, bcb, cdc etc.

The 3 members of the god head the symbolism in that.

Seems like a tornado, or a going down a spiral staircase.

Lustful Wind

Wrath Mud

Heretics Dust

Against self Blood

Against God Fire

Flatters, Simonists, Soothsayers, Grafters, Hypocrites, Thieves, Deceivers, Sowers of Discord, Falsifiers-River of Tar

To kindred, to country, to guest, to benefactors-Ice

Chasing a banner Ante-Inferno Neutrals the banner symbolizing hope.

Circle 1 Virgal Homer in Virtuous Pagans

Circle 2 Minos judge with tail and is stick together in a whirlwind lustful

Circle 3 Cerberus gluttons

Circle 4 Plutus prodigal and miserly

Circle 5 Styx the city of Dis Wrathful mud

City of Dis is between these levels or circles.

Circle 6 Arch-Heretics have tomb of fire and they turn to dust.

These Circles or levels of Dante’s Dante’s inferno Circles 2-5, 6 are Incontinent (wolf)

Minotaur is at the gate between Circle 6 which is Arch-Heretics and Circle 7 Violent (lion)-Phlegethon-against neighbors, Wood of Suicides- against self, Burning Plain-against God.

Geryon is there between the Great barrier that separates Circles 7 and 8.

Fraudulent leopard Circle 8 Panders and Seducers, Flatters, Simonist, Soothsayers, Grafters, Hypocrites, Thieves, Deceivers, Sowers of Discord, Falsifiers.

Circle 9 Treacherous- to kindred Caina, to country Antenora , to guests Tolomea, to benefactors Judecca.

My Version of the 8 deadly sins

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1.Lairs become worms and the birds try pecking at them, and get a peck for every lie.

2. The Vain have to pick up every little piece of glass, mirror, pretty much anything shiny on the ground like ants.

3. Gluttony resembles ticks in that they both eat too much.

4. Pride or the proud are like moths, but they are bound, so they can not eat. Confined in the whole they begin to die.

5. Lustful like to jump on people like grasshoppers and they will burn by fire.

6. What's wrong with swearing? You are annoying like an earwigs and listening to constant screeching for screaming, because of the pain and agony of hearing themselves.

7. Gossip, what will be their fate? They will be mosquitoes that bite them and they bite themselves forever.

8. Bullies- They never learned their lesson- so like the scorpion they will attack themselves with there stingers and crab like pincher's.

The comparison that I made between the Circles is that the 9 circles of Heaven could be the 9 plants, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, but Pluto is no longer considered a planet. 3 members of the god head, just like they're a

It’s interesting to me to see that in this text Christian calls on Greek gods.

And the many symbols that are present in the text. Such as Red=passion, white=purity, etc.