Tyler Alexander

Miss Skirtich

23 January 2018

English 10

Dante’s Inferno WebQuest

1. The dates of Dante’s life are 1265-1321.

2. Dante’s home was Florence.
3. Beatrice was the love of Dante’s life
4. Gemma Donati was Dante’s wife and she had no influence on his literature.
5. Dante was a soldier and a poet.
6. Dante belonged to the guelfo party.
7. Dante was charged for barratry and pope Bonovast was involved.
8. The literary contemporary of poetry.
9. The divine comedy is 3 volumes long.
10. The original title is called commedia.
11. Giovanni Boccaccio suggested the extension to this to explain the matter and to show the
beautifulness of his works.
12. The genre of this is comedy.
13. To show what Dante believes hell will be like.
14. Some of the influences to shape the divine comedy are Aristotle and virgil
15. Inferno was published in 1314.
16. It was originally published in Italian.
17. It was written in triplets.
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19. Inferno begins on good Friday in 1300
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1. Acheron- first river in hell
2. Styx- vast swamp
3. Charon- man that takes dead people across the river
4. Virgil- dante’s guide
5. Minos- king of crete and a giant beast
6. Francesca and Paolo de Rimini- lovers that must be together all the time
7. Pope Boniface 8- current pope
8. Filippo Argenti-
9. Ulysses- great hero who is now in hell
10. Arch Bishop Ruggeri-
11. Count Ugolino-
12. Fra Albergio-
13. Branca d’ Oria-
14. Judas Iscariot- Trader eaten by lucifer
15. Brutus- Trader eaten by lucifer
16. Cassius- trader eaten by lucifer
17. Allegory- a story that is literal and symbolic
18. Persona- aspect of someone’s character perceived by someone else
19. Contrapasso- a law of nature that says for every sinners crime there is an equal punishment
20. Avarice- extreme greed
21. Heretic- a person practicing religious heresy
22. Pinnacle- the most successful point
23. Pagan- a person holding religious beliefs other than those in in the main world
24. Treason- betryal
25. Hoard- a stock or store of valued objects
26. Bolgia-
27. Malbranche-