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The harpies in Dante's version feed from the leaves of oak trees, which entomb suicides.At the time Canto XIII (or The Wood of Suicides) was written, suicide was considered by the Catholic Church as at least equivalent to murder and a contravention of the Commandment "Thou shalt not kill", and many theologians believed it to be an even deeper sin than murder, as it constituted a rejection of ...
Dante and Virgilius meet Pietro della Vigna in the forest of Self-Murderers, in Canto XIII of Hell, ca. 1866 The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides, c. 1824–7. William Blake, Tate. 372 × 527mm. Shown is a scene from the Divine Comedy: Dante and Virgil discover Pietro's body encased in a tree.
The reference to the "salmi" (psalms) is a redirection to the Bible. The source would be from an environment of Jewish biblical studies. Ties are known of Dante with the Jewish poet Emmanuel Romano, friend of Dante and met by him at the Roman Curia in 1301 and later at the court of Cangrande della Scala in Verona during Dante's exile.
Jacopo del Cassero appears as a character in the Divine Comedy, composed between 1308 and 1321, where he is featured in canto 5 of Purgatorio alongside Pia de' Tolomei and Bonconte da Montefeltro. Dante the pilgrim meets Jacopo among the souls who were victims of violent deaths and repented for their sins in the very last moments of their lives ...
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Dante Alighieri" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The ...
Though Dante's view that one could be insufficiently evil for Hell has been described by some scholars as "theologically dubious", [4] behind Dante's adverse judgement of Celestine was the Thomist concept of recusatio tensionis, the unworthy refusal of a task that is within one's natural powers. [5]: 42 Petrarch disagreed with Dante's appraisal ...
J.P. MACDONOUGH: What's your relationship like with both of them? MATTHEW EDGAR: It's awesome. J.P. MACDONOUGH: OK. So, it's not a typical, "I hate your guts"?
The Dante Club is a 2003 novel by Matthew Pearl that tells the story of various American poets translating The Divine Comedy in post-civil war Boston, who must also investigate murders being committed based on the punishments in the text, due to their desire to protect Dante's reputation and the fact that only they have the necessary expertise ...