Map of Hell

Sandro Botticelli, 1480

I need to know if someone has the original text how he actually acts because I'm afraid that the translation I have of the book is a bit inaccurate or smth, I need someone to answer me if he actually speaks to the reader going like "Oh and you won't believe this, dear viewer" because every time it happens during Inferno and Purgatory made me laugh so hard. Dante you would have loved being a Vloger.

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The Green Valley, Purgatorio Cantos Vii-viii

Artist: Henry Arthur Payne (British, 1868-1940)

Date: 1800's

Medium: Watercolour and body color

Collection: Private Collection

The Green Valley, Purgatorio Cantos VII-VIII

Canto VII

Virgil identifies himself to Sordello, explaining that he has been barred from Heaven for his lack of Christian faith. Sordello humbly embraces Virgil around the knees, praising him as the pioneer of Latin literature. Sordello wants to know more about Virgil’s eternal fate, so Virgil explains that Limbo, though “melancholy,” is not as grievous and painful as the rest of Hell. Then Virgil asks Sordello how to reach Purgatory proper. Sordello explains that there’s no fixed path and adds that no one is permitted to climb overnight—it’s a law of Mount Purgatory.

Canto VIII

Dante y Beatriz contemplando el cielo más alto.

Divina Comedia, canto 28, el Paraíso.

1.) Dante refers to Guido as his best friend in Vita Nuova

2.) In Inferno (a later work), Dante reads Guido to filth and insinuates he is a heretic, as is his father, who he places in hell and describes in a cowardly way and puts him into further emotional distress while he’s there

3.) After the events of Inferno, real life Dante takes part in a political decision to banish the leaders of the two prominent political parties from Florence for fighting, Guido being one of them. In the city they sent him to, he contracted what is thought to be malaria and died, so Dante inadvertently led to his death