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- He sets out to climb directly up a small mountain, but his way is blocked by three beasts he cannot evade: a lonza[ 8 ] (usually rendered as ' leopard ' or ' leopon '), [ 9 ] a leone[ 10 ] (lion), and a lupa[ 11 ] (she-wolf).
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It begins when Dante is halfway through his life — 35 years old, half of the biblical three score and ten — and he has lost his way. When Dante speaks of having strayed from the right path, the reader should not assume that Dante has committed any specific sin or crime.
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- Canto VI
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- Canto II
Virgil reproves Dante for being afraid and assures him that...
- Canto V
Dante witnesses Minos, a great beast, examining each soul as...
- Canto Xv
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- Summary: Canto I
- Summary: Canto II
- Analysis: Cantos I–II
Halfway through his life, the poet Dantefinds himself wandering alone in a dark forest, having lost his way on the “true path” (I.10). He says that he does not remember how he lost his way, but he has wandered into a fearful place, a dark and tangled valley. Above, he sees a great hill that seems to offer protection from the shadowed glen. The sun ...
Dante invokes the Muses, the ancient goddesses of art and poetry, and asks them to help him tell of his experiences. Dante relates that as he and Virgil approach the mouth of Hell, his mind turns to the journey ahead and again he feels the grip of dread. He can recall only two men who have ever ventured into the afterlife and returned: the Apostle ...
From a structural point of view, the first two cantos of Inferno function as an introduction, presenting the main dramatic situation and maneuvering Dante and Virgil to the entrance of Hell, the journey through which will constitute the main plot of the poem. In a larger sense, however, the opening cantos help to establish the relationship between ...
Thirty-five years old at the beginning of the story, Dante—the character as opposed to the poet—has lost his way on the “true path” of life; in other words, sin has obstructed his path to God.
Branca (that is, his earthly body) did not die until 1325, but his soul, together with that of his nephew who assisted in his treachery, fell to Ptolomaea before Zanche's soul arrived at the bolgia of the Barrators. Dante leaves without keeping his promise to clear Fra Alberigo's eyes of ice ("And yet I did not open them for him; / and it was ...
Traveling through a dark wood, Dante Alighieri has lost his path and now wanders fearfully through the forest. The sun shines down on a mountain above him, and he attempts to climb up to it but finds his way blocked by three beasts—a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf.
In a kind of “mid-life crisis,” Dante has lost his way because he has not been attentive to the right path. In Proverbs 2:10ff, we read that wisdom, knowledge, and understanding will save those who are upright “…from those who have left the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness.”
When Dante says he has lost the "straight way"--diritta via (Inf. 1.3)--he again leaves much to our imagination, with the result that we can perhaps relate to the protagonist by imagining many possible meanings for this deviation from the "straight way" (also translated as the "right way").
