FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Alexander the Great
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Shakespeare
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King Tut
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Saul
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Detailed explanation-1: -This canto focuses on those who have sinned against God. Their punishment is to have flakes of fire slowly rained down on them (nice touch, by the way-very Sodom and Gomorrah).
Detailed explanation-2: -The historical context for Dante’s Inferno is the centuries-long war between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, over whether the emperor or the pope should have more power.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem written by an Italian poet, Dante Alighieri. He was a philosopher and theologist involved with religion and political issues in medieval Florence, his hometown. He started writing The Divine Comedy in 1308, and finished it in 1321.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Divine Comedy is a fulcrum in Western history. It brings together literary and theological expression, pagan and Christian, that came before it while also containing the DNA of the modern world to come. It may not hold the meaning of life, but it is Western literature’s very own theory of everything.