FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Those with the most constancy of characters
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The proud
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The best emperors and rulers
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The souls of those who abandoned their vows
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Detailed explanation-1: -Members of the Donati family, Piccarda and her brothers are related to Dante through his marriage to Gemma Donati. The lunar sphere is assigned to those who for one reason or another did not maintain their religious vows. Piccarda belonged to the “Poor Clares, ” an order founded by St.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thus the fourth, fifth and sixth heavens house the souls of those who were wise, those who fought for faith and those who were good, righteous men.
Detailed explanation-3: -The souls Dante meets in the Heaven of the Moon are those people who failed on earth to fulfil the vows they had made to God; and much space is devoted in the cantos of the Heaven of the Moon to reflection on the nature of vows.
Detailed explanation-4: -Constance was a 12-century Sicilian queen, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI. Like her fellow nun Piccarda dei Donati, Constance left the religious life she preferred on the urging of family members and married; as a result, she spends eternity in the heavenly sphere of the Moon, which is associated with inconstancy.
Detailed explanation-5: -First, he imagines Purgatory as being divided up into seven terraces, each one corresponding to a vice (in the order that Dante sees them: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Avarice and Prodigality, Gluttony and Lust).