Word: lnferno
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...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...
...lnferno, the most exciting of the canticles, reads like a scenario for the ultimate horror movie. Hell, as Dante conceives it, is formed in the shape of a funnel. Terraces circle its inner surfaces in a descending series of damnations. In the first circle, the innocent shades of pre-Christian times exist in peace. In the next four, the souls of the incontinent are tormented. Heresy, violence and fraud have their reward in the sixth, seventh and eighth circles, and traitors fill the bottom of the pit-a region not of everlasting fire but of eternal...
...agonies of atonement-among them Pope Adrian V, King Philip the Fair, the poets Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel. At first the climb is cruelly difficult, but as Dante ascends it becomes easier. Both as a man and a poet, he visibly grows as he goes. In I'lnferno the verse is harsh, immediate, brilliant; in Il Purgatorio it becomes progressively more rich and reflective...
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