P3+Dante+Alighieri

Aim - Gabrielle Richardson
 Dante wrote this book to represent how God has played a role in his life and how it is a way of life that should be lived by everyone. He wrote it as an explanation of the spiritual journey of man and how it is the basics of life. As he was writing he said “that God is the creator of prime matter was an article of faith, and Thomas had dealt decisively with the role of divine will and intellect in the creative act.”( Alighieri).He explains how divine justice was by God. He believed that he discovered his power. His power rules over all and nothing is more powerful than anything in this world. God is the center of his work, and his words are what he goes by throughout his life. Also when he explains the journey of man he shows how Hell also plays a role in the journey that is taken. His words are spoken to explain the world through the eyes of mankind and and when they are able to take that spiritual journey to the afterlife, then it is all seen as God’s divine justice in our world. //**Works Cited **// Chou, Peter. "Dante Alighieri." (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Winthrop Wetherbee, 29 Jan. 2001. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. .  Merriman, C. D. "Inferno." By Dante Alighieri. Search EText, Read Online, Study, Discuss. The Literature Network, 2006. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. .

Audience - Kaleb Arnold
Dante was a man that wanted not only to show his works to the public, but also educate them. With all of his studies throughout his lifetime he was able to not only inform and educate, but to inspire them. Dante went to multiple schools to learn what we all know about today. With Dante studying many different things his fellow countrymen were also able to understand more things thank people could have ever thought. "Like Aquinas, Dante wished to summon his audience to the practice of philosophical wisdom, though by means of truths embedded in his own poetry, rather than mysteriously embodied in scripture.," (Wetherbee). Within the quote you can see that he didn't want to publish work and have the people figure it out, he wanted to be able to help them. Dante was a man that cared about people. He didn't write his works for himself, he did it for his people. Wetherbee, Winthrop, "Dante Alighieri", //The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition) //, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

Merriman, C.D. "Dante Alighieri." //- Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. // Jalic Inc., 2006. Web. 31 Aug. 2012. <http://www.online-literature.com/dante/>.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dante Alighieri created all of his works with different meanings and different levels of meaning. He is most known for writing Inferno, which is about a man’s journey through the concept of Hell. The epic poem can be explained by stating, “It has profoundly affected not only the religious imagination but all subsequent allegorical creation of imaginary worlds in literature” (Liukkonen). His poems and stories have helped today’s theological understanding of heaven and hell, hence the “religious imagination” and “imaginary worlds”. Alighieri has also used his work to admit any and all of his sins, excluding his exile in 1302-which was when he wrote many of his stories, including Inferno. During his time period, most writing was in Latin but not all levels of society were able to read it-so Dante wrote in Italian. It made his stories available to the natives and if one couldn’t read, then they could hear it spoken. Dante affected his generation and future generations up to today’s world with his works and how he wrote them. // **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited ** // <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Liukkonen, Petri. "Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)." Books and Writers. N.p., 2008. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dante.htm>. Devera, John. "The Historic Importance of Inferno, by Dante Alighieri." Helium. Helium, 05 Aug. 2008. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. <http://www.helium.com/items/1138141-the-historic-importance-of-inferno-by-dante-alighieri>.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dante Alighieri’s works in 1200-1300 influenced many artists and writers. His works have been shown to have impacted art and literature in countries other than Florence, where he lived. Said by a writer for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Dante’s works are the pillars for English literature”(Wetherbee 1). In the time period that Dante was alive, it was a time of romance which is clearly shown within his works. His muse was Beatrice Portinari, although they met at the young age of 8 and 9. In that time period, the culture was to marry and fall in love young, which they did. It’s seen by many artists and writers from that time period that romance and love was a major part of the culture. It’s been said by many that Dante’s writing had a “medieval embodiment”, due to the fact he was alive during Medieval Europe. Also said by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Dante’s writing had a medieval embodiment”, (Wetherbee 3). By this, Wetherbee means that Dante’s writing had the idea or quality of the Medieval culture. Dante was very valued within the community and was an active member of the culture and civic life of Florencia. Dante was even a soldier and held several political offices. In his text, there are often parts that directly relate to the culture in this time period. //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited // <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wetherbee, Winthrop, "Dante Alighieri", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/dante/>. "Dante". //Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.// Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 31 Aug. 2012 < [] >.