FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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He is a Pagan born before Christianity
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He committed the sin of lust
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Dante considers him a betrayer
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He was a fallen demon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Virgil is trapped in limbo because he was born before the birth of Jesus Christ, and so he doesn’t really belong in hell, and he can’t go to heaven because he was a pagan while alive.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inferno tells the story of Dante’s journey through a vision of hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin. The first circle is Limbo, the space reserved for those souls who died before baptism and for those who hail from non-Christian cultures.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poets enter the first circle of Hell-Limbo-the place where virtuous pagans reside. Virgil explains that these shades (souls) are only here because they were born without the benefit of Christianity, either due to being born before Christ, or because the soul was an unbaptized child.
Detailed explanation-4: -[30] As we have seen, Dante’s Limbo houses principally virtuous pagans, nonbelievers of classical antiquity, who lived before Christianity. However, Dante also includes in his Limbo three virtuous Muslims, born many centuries after the start of Christianity.