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  • poet. His greatest work, the epic poem The Divine Comedy, is considered the greatest literary statement produced in medieval Europe. ...
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  • with Leucippus. Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos ... "weeping philosopher." In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees the shade ...
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  • history kindled tremendous expectations for the reform of the Catholic Church ... In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri placed Joachim in paradise. ...
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  • favorable and comprehensive analysis within the contexts of diverse art forms. In Plato's metaphysics, permanent and immutable Ideas have the ...
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  • works, which had been mostly forgotten in the West. The few existing Latin ... to him, Averroes is named by Dante in The Divine Comedy with the other great ...
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  • The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites ... The derogatory and potentially fallacious descriptions of the Bacchanalia ...
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  • Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... In the Divine Comedy, Dante depicts limbo as the first circle of Hell ...
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  • as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... of his guide to Hell and Purgatory in The Divine Comedy. ...
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  • of notable works, including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in ... Boccaccio's poetry would be some of the most widely influential ...
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  • [[Image:Paradiso Canto 31.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Divine Comedy ... The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ...
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  • * The Divine Comedy, Part 1: Hell ISBN 0140440062 * The Divine Comedy, Part 2: Purgatory ISBN 0140440461 * The Divine ...
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  • Harpy is the singular form for the mythical creatures called Harpies ... used Harpies in their works. In the Divine Comedy, in Canto XIII of the ...
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  • σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... If Sophocles was the dramatist whose primary theme was fate, Aeschylus ...
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  • and part of its Golden Age. She was one of the few actors or actresses of ... Garbo is regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie ...
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  • , a thirteenth-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries, was ... it was a fitting end. Dante, in the The Divine Comedy|Paradiso (x. 134-6 ...
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  • a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ... Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy). ...
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  • obvious meaning. He appears in The Divine Comedy as a model for poets ... In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Arnaut Daniel appears as a character ...
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  • than a metaphor and often appeals to the imagination, whereas an analogy ... * Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy * Edmund Spenser – The Faerie ...
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  • Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was the most widely ... Henson's success as an artist and entrepreneur was the consummation ...
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  • He is memorable in history for suppressing the order of the Templars, and ... ushered in a century of schism: In the Divine Comedy, Dante is shown the ...
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