1 : Provide at least three specific examples of how the torments suffered by those in the various levels of Hell described in the Inferno correlate to the sins for which they are guilty.

 

2 : The Divine Comedy is undoubtedly a religious or spiritual work. But it is also an epic, which means it ranges widely in subject matter. Identify at least two sections of the poem in which Dante discusses ideas that are not, immediately at least, religious.

 

3 : What is the broader allegorical significance of the journey that Dante's epic relates from the Underworld, to Purgatory, and finally to Paradise?

 

4 : What is the setting of The Divine Comedy at the beginning of the poem?  Why might Dante have chosen this setting to begin his epic?

 

5 : Who is Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory? Why might Dante have chosen this character?

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