FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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For contempt by the enemy
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Because it is the body of an excommunicated person
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Because unrecognizable among the bodies of other soldiers
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Because hidden under a cairn of stones
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Detailed explanation-1: -Manfred’s story: At the battle of Benevento, he received two fatal wounds. Right before dying, Manfred repented of all his sins and gave himself completely to the merciful God. Unfortunately, his enemy was Pope Clement IV and he excommunicated him after death.
Detailed explanation-2: -As Virgil tries to reassure Dante, there is a sudden flash of lightning and an earthquake. After that, Dante faints. Thus ends Canto 3 of Dante’s Inferno.
Detailed explanation-3: -For Dante, Purgatory is not only a place where you pay the debts you incurred when you sinned: it is in fact the place where you reflect on those sins, and where you change the psychological tendencies which led you to sin. This leads to extraordinary richness in the depiction of character.
Detailed explanation-4: -Virgil tells Dante to take comfort in Charon’s first refusal to carry him on the boat, because only condemned spirits come this way. As Virgil finishes his explanation, a sudden earthquake, accompanied by wind and flashing fire from the ground, terrifies Dante to such a degree that he faints.