Divine Comedy

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Divine Comedy
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Dante Aligheri (1265-1321)

• Florence, Italy
• Beatrice
• La Vita Nuova
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• Convivio
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• La Divina Commedia
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• De Vulgari Eloquentia
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• Divine Comedy
• Inferno
• Purgatorio
• Paradiso

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terza rima

• Se mai continga che 'l poema sacro
• al quale ha posto mano e cielo e terra,
• sì che m'ha fatto per molti anni macro,
• vinca la crudeltà che fuor mi serra
• del bello ovile ov'io dormi' agnello,
• nimico ai lupi che li danno guerra
• con altra voce omai, con altro vello
• ritornerò poeta, e in sul fonte
• del mio battesmo prenderò 'l cappello ...

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• Albert Ritter sketched the Comedys geography
  from Dantes Cantos Hells entrance is near
  Florence with the circles descending to Earths
  centre sketch 5 reflects Canto 34s inversion as
  Dante passes down, and thereby up to Mount
  Purgatorys shores in the southern hemisphere,
  where he passes to the first sphere of Heaven at
  the top.

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• Inferno

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• Purgatorio

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• Paradiso

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Inferno Canto I

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Canto II

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Canto III

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Canto IV

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Canto V

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Semiramis
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Aeneas and Dido

• Aeneas recounting the Trojan War to Dido, a
  painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. This scene is
  taken from Virgils Aeneid, where Dido (Elissa)
  falls in love with, and is be-trayed by, the
  Trojan hero Aeneas.

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Aeneas' Flight from Troy by Federico Barocci,1598
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• Death of Dido, Peter Paul Rubens,1640.

• Dido, Christophe Cochet, formerly at Marly
  (Louvre)

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• Cleopatra

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• Leda and the Swan(Leonado da Vinci)

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• Helen of Troy

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• The Love of Helen and Paris

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• Achilles

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The Sacrifice of Polyxena
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Tristan and Isolde
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• Tristan and Isolde

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Francesca Da Rimini
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Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca
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Canto XXXIV

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