Ready to abandon hope, all ye who enter? I thought I'd try my hand at a round of questions at every Medieval Italian Literature lover's favorite trilogy. These questions all pertain to or were inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. Apologies for the lack of italics. I am still learning how to use this platform.
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In total, how many cantos are there in the entire Commedia (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)?
Name this famed biographer of Dante who wrote the collection of stories known as the "Decameron". According to popular scholarly legend, this man's often credited with being one of the first to call Dante's Commedia, "divine."
n Canto IV of "Inferno", Dante describes one Greek philosopher, found among the denizens of Limbo, as the "maestro di color che sanno" or "the master of those that know." Who is this philosopher whose ideas (especially about ethics) influenced much of Dante's thought?
This eighth circle of Hell wherein fraud is punished is known by what name, which can be translated roughly as "evil pouch" or "evil ditch"? The name for this place also inspired a name for a character in the Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic.
Dante's depiction of Ulysses in Canto XXVI of "Inferno" most likely inspired in part what English poet laureate's "Ulysses"?
In "Inferno", Satan is portrayed as having three mouths; each mouth is chewing on a noted traitor. Judas and Brutus are two of them. Who is the third?
In "Purgatorio", Dante and Virgil encounter a Roman poet (who as it turns out, unbeknownst to everyone, was a secret Christian) among the saved. Name this poet, author of the Thebaid and the Silvae.
In "Purgatorio", those guilty of what sin, one of the "seven deadly sins",were punished by being forced to run continually around the Mount of Purgatory?
In Canto VI of "Paradiso", Dante meets what Byzantine Emperor and husband of Theodora?
In Canto XVII of "Paradiso", what ancestor of Dante informs Dante of the following bit of culinary lore Dante will discover in exile: "Tu proverai sì come sa di sale lo pane altrui" (English Translation by Cary: "How salt the savour is of other’s bread")?
In an animated adaptation of a graphic novel adaptation of Dante's Inferno by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders, who voiced Virgil? This actor also voiced Professor Callaghan in the animated movie, "Big Hero" 6.
"The Gates of Hell" (French: "La Porte de l'Enfer"), a sculpture depicting a scene from Dante's "Inferno", is by what French artist?