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  1. Apr 8, 2021 · The Divine Comedy. of Dante Alighieri. Translated by. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. INFERNO. Contents. Inferno: Canto I. Midway upon the journey of our life. I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

  2. Dante's progress through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso represent an extended—often painful, often numinous—attempt to re-align himself with the proper path and to find his soul again. — Stephen Holliday

  3. Dante meets him in Inferno, and hails him as his intellectual father—as the master who taught him from day to day how fame is to be won. But it is too much to infer from these words that Latini served as his teacher, in the common sense of the word.

  4. The relation Dante bears to these two is that of erring humanity struggling to the light. Virgil leads him as far as he can, and then commits him to the holier rule of Beatrice. But the poem would lose its charm if the allegorical meaning of every passage were too closely insisted on.

  5. Inferno Canto II:121-142 Virgil strengthens Dante’s will ‘What is it then? Why, do you hold back? Why? Why let such cowardly fear into your heart? Why, when three such blessed ladies, in the courts of heaven, care for you, and my words promise you so much good, are you not free and ardent?’

  6. Inferno 2 dramatizes the premise of meaningful consolation from a dead beloved with narratological flair: in a narrative flashback to a time before the action of Inferno 1.

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  8. Oct 27, 2013 · The second canto of Dante's Inferno is in some ways a continuation of Canto 1, where Dante encounters the poet Virgil while lost and impeded in the selva oscura, the dark forest of mid-life dissolution and oppression.

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