Dante

Question 1

Main representative of the church

Answer 1

Pope

Question 2

Main representative of the states

Answer 2

Holy Roman emperor

Question 3

Party that supported the papacy

Answer 3

Guelph party

Question 4

Party that supported imperial power

Answer 4

Ghibelline party

Question 5

Guelph’s divided into ____ factions

Answer 5

Two

Question 6

Faction of Guelph party that supported the independence of Florence from strict papal control. Dante’s party

Answer 6

Whites

Question 7

Faction of Guelph party were willing to work with the pope in order to restore their power

Answer 7

Blacks

Question 8

The Blacks gained control of Florence under direction of Pope ________

Answer 8

Boniface VIII

Question 9

Dante was _______ within a year of the Blacks gaining control. Why?

Answer 9

Exiled

He was a visible and influential leader of the whites

Question 10

Dante became something of a party unto himself after his exile. His attitudes were, at times, closer to those of a _________ than a _______, so much did he dislike _________. The pope, as well as a multitude of other characters from Florentine politics, has a place in the Hell that Dante depicts in Inferno—and not a pleasant one.

Answer 10

Ghibelline
Guelph
Boniface

Question 11

Father of Italian literature

Answer 11

Dante

Question 12

The three parts of The Divine Comedy

Answer 12

Inferno (Hell)
Purgatory
Paradise (Heaven)

Question 13

___ cantos in each part plus 1 introductory canto.

____ total cantos

Answer 13

33

100

Question 14

Verse scheme used in the divine comedy

Answer 14

Terza rima

Question 15

Terza rima is the hendecasyllable (line of __ syllables), with the lines composing tercets according to the rhyme scheme ABA BCB CDC . . . YZY Z.

Answer 15

11

Question 16

The poet tells in the first person his travel through the three _____ of the dead, lasting during the _______ _________ in the ______ of 1300

Answer 16

realms
Easter Triduum
spring

Question 17

His guide through Hell and Purgatory is the Latin poet _____, author of the Aeneid and the Fourth Eclogue, and the guide through Paradise is ________, Dante’s ideal of a perfect woman

Answer 17

Virgil

Beatrice

Question 18

___________ was a real Florentine woman whom he met in ____________ and admired from afar in the mode of the then- fashionable courtly love tradition.

Answer 18

Beatrice

childhood

Question 19

The poem begins on _____ ______ of the year 1300, “In the middle of our life’s journey” (Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita), and so opens in _____ ___. Dante is ___ years old, half of the biblically allotted age of 70

Answer 19

Good Friday
medias res
35

Question 20

Dante passes through the ____ __ ____, on which is inscribed the famous phrase, “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate” or “_________________________”

Answer 20

Gate of Hell

“Abandon all hope, you who enter here”

Question 21

Virgil guides Dante through the __ circles of Hell

Answer 21

9

Question 22

The circles are concentric, each new one representing further and further ____, culminating in the center of the earth, where _____ is held, bound

Answer 22

Evil

Satan

Question 23

Each circle’s sin is punished in a fashion fitting their crime: the sinner is afflicted by the chief sin he committed for all of eternity. Sinners such as these are found in Purgatory, but those in hell ____ their sin and are ___________.

Answer 23

justify

unrepentant

Question 24

Furthermore, those in hell have knowledge of the past and future, but not of the ______. This is a joke on them in Dante’s mind because after the _____ _______, time ends; those in hell would then know _____.

Answer 24

present
Final Judgment
nothing

Question 25

The two poets escape by climbing the ragged ___ of Lucifer, passing through the center of the earth, emerging in the other hemisphere just before dawn on _____ _______ beneath a sky studded with stars.

Answer 25

Fur | Easter Sunday

Question 26

Having survived the depths of Hell, Dante and Virgil ascend out of the undergloom, to the ________ __ _______ on the far side of the world (in Dante's time, it was believed that Hell existed underneath _________). The Mountain is on an _____, the only land in the Southern Hemisphere.

Answer 26

Mountain of Purgatory Jerusalem island

Question 27

From there, Virgil guides the pilgrim Dante through the __ terraces of Purgatory. These correspond to the seven deadly ____, each terrace purging a particular sin in an appropriate manner

Answer 27

7 | Sins

Question 28

Those in purgatory can leave their circle whenever they like, but essentially there is an ______ system where no one leaves until they have _______ the nature within themselves that caused them to commit that sin.

Answer 28

honors | corrected

Question 29

Souls can only move ______ and never __________, since the intent of Purgatory is for souls to ascend towards God in Heaven, and can ascend only during ______ ____, since the light of God is the only true guidance.

Answer 29

Upwards backwards daylight hours

Question 30

The ascent of the mountain culminates at the summit, which is in fact the ______ __ ____. This place is meant to return one to a state of ________ that existed before the sin of Adam and Eve caused the fall from grace

Answer 30

Garden of Eden | innocence

Question 31

Here Dante meets _______ (in Dante's spelling "Matelda," representing "_____ _______," the object of Dante's affection after _______'s death and his embodiment of wisdom), a woman of grace and beauty who _______ souls for their ascent to _______.

Answer 31

``` Matilda Lady Philosophy Beatrice Prepares Heaven ```

Question 32

With her Dante witnesses a highly symbolic procession that may be read as an allegorical masque of the ______ and the ________. One participant in the procession is Beatrice, whom Dante loved in childhood, and at whose request Virgil was commissioned to bring Dante on his journey.

Answer 32

Church | Sacrament

Question 33

Virgil, as a pagan, is a permanent denizen of _______, the first circle of Hell, and may not enter Paradise: he vanishes. _______ then becomes the second guide (accompanied by an extravagant procession), and will accompany Dante in his vision of Heaven.

Answer 33

Limbo | Beatrice

Question 34

After an initial ascension, Beatrice guides Dante through the __ spheres of Heaven. These are concentric and spherical

Answer 34

nine

Question 35

Dante admits that the vision of heaven he receives is the one that his human eyes permit him to see. Thus, the vision of heaven found in the Cantos is Dante's own personal vision, ambiguous in its true construction

Answer 35

Yeah

Question 36

The addition of a ____ dimension means that a soul that has reached Paradise stops at the level applicable to it. Souls are allotted to the point of heaven that fits with their human ability to love God. Thus, there is a heavenly _______

Answer 36

moral | hierarchy

Question 37

All parts of heaven are ________ to the heavenly soul. That is to say all experience God but there is a hierarchy in the sense that some souls are more spiritually _______ than others. This is not determined by time or learning as such but by their ________ to God (how much they allow themselves to experience him above other things).

Answer 37

accessible developed proximity

Question 38

It must be remembered in Dante's schema that all souls in Heaven are on some level always in ______ with God

Answer 38

contact

Question 39

Beatrice leaves Dante with Saint _______ who prays to Mary on behalf of Dante and Dante is allowed to see both _____ and _____

Answer 39

Bernard | Jesus and Mary

Question 40

From the ______ ______, Dante ascends to a region beyond physical existence, called the _________. Here he comes face-to-face with God Himself, and is granted understanding of the Divine and of human nature

Answer 40

Primum Mobile | Empyrean

Question 41

His vision is improved beyond that of ________ comprehension. God appears as three equally large circles within each other representing the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit with the essence of each part of God, separate yet one

Answer 41

human

Question 42

The book ends with Dante trying to understand how the circles fit together, how the Son is separate yet one with the Father but as Dante put it "that was not a flight for my wings" and the vision of God becomes equally inimitable and inexplicable that no word or intellectual exercise can come close to explaining what he saw.

Answer 42

Yeah

Question 43

Dante's soul, through God's absolute love, experiences a _________ with itself and all things "but already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed by the love that turns the sun and all the other stars"

Answer 43

unification