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A review by reaganwaggoner
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
3.0
Poetically written/translated, sort of disturbing? The imagery is well-done, certainly, but parts are also a bit disturbing. Whatever. The poetry is incredible, the mind brilliant, the mind also very disturbing. I can feel the progression of this story.
I reread sections a lot and read analyses as I went.. Either way. Interesting stuff I guess. Dante was a weird guy ngl but he influenced a lot. The amount of people who know of his ideas even if they don't know of him specifically is astronomical
For personal reference:
1) Limbo - unbaptized and virtuous pagans - Virgil, Homer, Horace, Socrates, Plato
2) Lust - blown about in storm without hope of rest
3) Gluttonous: lay in slush with Cerberus above
4) Avarice: guarded by Pluto - those who hoard too much money - corrupt clergymen, others
5) Wrath: where Phlegyas and the boat are, sees Fillippo Argentino and wishes for his death, he's torn to pieces
6) Heresy: cannot see present but only the distant future
7) Violence: three sections: against God, against self, against other men
8) Fraud: false prophets, liars, seducers, flatterers, hypocrites - immersed in feces
9) Treachery: betrayers of special relationships - frozen in ice - Brutus, Judas, Satan, Cassius
I reread sections a lot and read analyses as I went.. Either way. Interesting stuff I guess. Dante was a weird guy ngl but he influenced a lot. The amount of people who know of his ideas even if they don't know of him specifically is astronomical
For personal reference:
1) Limbo - unbaptized and virtuous pagans - Virgil, Homer, Horace, Socrates, Plato
2) Lust - blown about in storm without hope of rest
3) Gluttonous: lay in slush with Cerberus above
4) Avarice: guarded by Pluto - those who hoard too much money - corrupt clergymen, others
5) Wrath: where Phlegyas and the boat are, sees Fillippo Argentino and wishes for his death, he's torn to pieces
6) Heresy: cannot see present but only the distant future
7) Violence: three sections: against God, against self, against other men
8) Fraud: false prophets, liars, seducers, flatterers, hypocrites - immersed in feces
9) Treachery: betrayers of special relationships - frozen in ice - Brutus, Judas, Satan, Cassius