FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Virtuous pagans
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Soldiers
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Children
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Old Testament saints
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Detailed explanation-1: -Limbo in Dante’s Inferno includes individuals who died before the first coming of Christ or those born after Christ but died without having been baptized.
Detailed explanation-2: -The heroes of the Old Testament Bible such as Noah and Abraham have already left Limbo for Heaven, as God granted them entrance even though they know nothing of Christ.
Detailed explanation-3: -In The Divine Comedy the poet encounters Cesar in Limbo among the noble heathen, and only describes him in one somewhat menacing line: ‘Cesare armato con gli occhi grifagni’, ‘Casar in arms with the hawk-like eyes’ (Inferno IV 23).
Detailed explanation-4: -The virtuous pagans. These pagans were good morally, but they were not Christian (or Jewish in the days before Christ). The unbaptized, including infants. The people who used to be here, including the Jewish patriarchs. 11-Jan-2019