- Dante chose not to write The Comedy in Latin but in his common language (Tuscan/Italian dialect)
- Challenged authorities at the time
- Vernacular - common language, vulgar
- Dante is half-way through his life at the time of entering the inferno in his book (35 years)
- The journey into hell begins on Good Friday in 1300
- His work was published before the printing press was invented so it had to be written on sheepskin and would have been extremely expensive
- Calvinism focuses on predestination, the chosen/elite group
- Martin Luther - had a different idea of being saved by faith not by good works
- Reoccurring theme of fame and remembrance in many of the works we have read so far this term. Worst case scenario is to be forgotten, even if it is in a negative way people wanted to be remembered by the living.
- Dante was often carried or cradled by Virgil - father figure?
- Dante was often rebuked by Virgil for inappropriate pity or for being overly fascinated by the figures in hell.
- Guest friendship remained an important concept in the middle ages as in ancient times
- Worst kind of betrayal is that of family and kin
- Acedia - sloth
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