Dante Background Flashcards
(43 cards)
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St. Augustine
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Christianized Plato
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Yr St. Augustine was born
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400
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Yr fall of Rome
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476
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Early Middle Ages
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400-1000
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Charlemagne crowned HRE
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800
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Yr Otto crowned HRE
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962
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Plato’s influence yrs
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400-1200
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Yr Catholics take Jerusalem from Muslims
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1099
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Muslim scholars translated Aristotle yr
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1200
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Late Middle Ages
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1300-14/1500
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Aristotle yrs
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1200-1500
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Yr Byzantine falls
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1453
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Hapsburg
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1452
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How long did HRE last
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1000 yrs
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HRE centered in what country
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Germany
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Purpose of crusades
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Take Jerusalem from Muslims
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Philosopher important to Dante
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Aristotle
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Aristotle in relation to Plato
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Scientific –> refutes Plato
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St Thomas Aquinas
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Interested in Aristotle
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Dante’s last name
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Alighieri
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Dante’s native city state
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Florence
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Guelfs supported
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Pope
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Ghibellines supported
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HRE
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Battle of Montaperti- Ghibellines win
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1260
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Battle of benevento- guelfs finally win
1266
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Black guelfs
Support pope
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White guelfs
Support HRE
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Yr Dante is born
1265
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Dante's love
Beatrice (Bice Portinari)
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Courtly love
Amour courtois
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Dante leaves florence
1301
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Dante found guilty of
Corruption
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Dante leaves florence
1301
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Pope Dante blamed
Boniface VIII
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Yr Dante starts Commedia
1307-8
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Yr Commedia is finished and Dante dies
1321
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Dante is buried in
Ravenna
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Cantos in Commedia
Inferno- 34 (intro+33)
Purgatorio- 33
Paradiso- 33
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Comedy
Starts unhappy ends happy, can use simpler language than epic
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Terra Rima
"3rd rhyme"
Tercets
Aba bcb cdc
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Musa
For Penguin Classics
New out of print
Didn't retain rhyme scheme
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Ciardi
Kept Terza Rima
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Longfellow
Not best translation but read by most Americans in 19th and 30th centuries
