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" Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe" is the opening line of Canto VII of Dante Alighieri's Inferno. The line, consisting of three words, is famous for the uncertainty of its meaning, and there have been many attempts to interpret it. Modern commentators on the Inferno view it as some kind of demonic invocation to Satan. [1] [2]
The text of the short prayer from the opening lines of Canto 33 of Paradiso was set to music for a cappella women's voices by Giuseppe Verdi. Composed between 1886 and 1888, "Laudi alla Vergine Maria" (Praises to the Virgin Mary), the third movement of his Four Sacred Pieces [ 75 ] was one of the last pieces written before his death.
The Divine Comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three cantiche (singular cantica) – Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso – each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural canti). An initial canto, serving as an introduction to the poem and generally considered to be part of the first cantica , brings the total number of ...
Comedy i.e. all three parts: Rhymed 6-line stanzas: First full translation of the Divine Comedy in English 1805–1814: Henry Francis Cary: United Kingdom James Carpenter Comedy: Blank verse: Volume 20 in the Harvard Classics series. Reprinted by Bohn's Library in 1850 and Chandos Classics in 1871
On-line Concordance to the Divine Comedy; Wikisummaries summary and analysis of Inferno; Danteworlds, multimedia presentation of the Divine Comedy for students by Guy Raffa of the University of Texas; Dante's Places: a map (still a prototype) of the places named by Dante in the Commedia, created with GoogleMaps. Explanatory PDF is available for ...
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.
The castle in the first circle of hell, as illustrated by Stradanus. The first circle of hell is depicted in Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. Inferno tells the story of Dante's journey through a vision of hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin.
"To Die a Virgin" is a song by the Divine Comedy and is the opening track to their 2006 album Victory for the Comic Muse. It was released on 14 August 2006 as the second single from that album. The sample at the beginning of the song is of Jennifer Ehle and Toby Stephens in the 1992 TV series The Camomile Lawn .