FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Satan
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Beatrice
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Minos
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Francesca
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Detailed explanation-1: -Canto 5 begins in the second circle of Hell, which is occupied by ‘carnal sinners. ‘ The argument tells us that Dante and Virgil meet Minos, ‘the Infernal Judge, ’ who warns Dante about his travels.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dante and Virgil reach the river Acheron, where they encounter Charon.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante is forced to return to the forest where he meets the spirit of Virgil, who promises to lead him on a journey through Hell so that he may be able to enter Paradise. Dante agrees to the journey and follows Virgil through the gates of Hell.
Detailed explanation-4: -Here Dante meets the souls of the unbaptised, of virtuous pagans and those who lived before the time of Christ; Hellenistic and Roman figures including Homer, Horace, Hector, and Lucius Junius Brutus, as well as Islamic scholars and nobility such as Saladin, Avicenna, and Averroes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Description: In Greek myth King of Crete and later judge of the Underworld; in the Inferno Minos is judge of the damned, a monstrous demon who wraps his long tail around each sinner a number of times equal to the circle of Hell in which the sinner will be flung.