Reading Diary Week 13: Dante's Inferno

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Dante and Virgil

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His stories are so vivid and full of imagery. He lived under Augustus. The old man asks him why he doesn’t just go to heaven. I wonder what creature he talks about that guards to path escape the path to hell. What is Feltro? “ His birthplace will lie between Feltro and Feltro”.

The Gate of Hell and Charon

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The words above the gate are so cryptic. Hell has angels in it? Fallen angels? Why would the deeper parts of Hell not accept the fallen angels? It says to keep evil from overtaking them, but isn’t that something Satan would want?

Limbo

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When referring to the first circle, is it referring to the first circle of Hell or the first circle of Limbo? Limbo is full of unbaptized people. Only those mentioned from the bible were saved from Limbo.

Poets and Philosophers, Heroes and Heroines

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Faces that are neither happy nor sad.