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Dante's Presentation of Lustful Sin

Introduction

Durante Degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri, is the famous Italian poet of the middle ages. He was born in 1265 in Florence, Italy. He is known as the “Father of the Italian Language”, with producing many masterpieces, the evidence of which was “Divine Comedy”. The poem had grabbed much of the attention, that people considered this as the greatest ever literary work in the history of Italian language.

This paper reflects Dante's presentation of the people who sinned through lust and who had imperfect love, and also its analysis from a personal point of view. Divine Comedy was written during the period of 1308 and 1321 (the death year of Dante), and it comprise of three parts, namely; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Dante's all-time classic, Divine Comedy, truly depicts his presentation of evil and sin, specially the first part of the poem, which is Inferno.

Synopsis of the Inferno

The Inferno depicts that how Dante loses his way from straight and rightful course and starts following the more converse path. The plot continues to represent that how Dante was being threatened to attack by three wild animals, and that the ghost of Virgil came in that point of time to rescue Dante. Dante has represented this ghost as his idol. Virgil told Dante that he was sent by Santa Lucia and Virgin Mary for rescuing you.

The rest of the Inferno is based on the tour of Hell, led by Virgil in order to take Dante to all of the nine circles of Hell. The Hell's first circle, also known as Limbo, represents all the good people and unbaptized from the earlier era of the Christ. Virgil further added that he also resides in the same circle with a group of other Roman and Geek poets (Alighieri and Lombardo, 2009).

Then, Virgil guides Dante to the second circle of hell, where lustful sinners are given punishment by throwing them around the never ending storms. Dante also talks to one of the sinners there, named Francesca da Rimini, that how she committed adultery with Paolo after being pushed for the loveless and arranged marriage.

Then they enter into the third circle, where the greedy sinners (Gluttons) were set to suffer a muddy and cold rain. One of the gluttons was approached by Dante, named Ciacco, who predicted the Florence's failure. When they enter into the fourth circle, they see some greedy people (Avaricious) along with some reckless spenders (Prodigal), where they were rolling heavyweights in the never ending circles (Lovett, 2003).

When they stop at the fifth circle, they see some Sullen and Wrathful people, who were immersed under the river covered with the mud, known as Styx. During their visit, Dante met with one of the sinners, Filippo Argenti, who was asking for some help from him, but he refused to do so. While entering into the sixth circle, they see some Heretics who were lying in the fiery tombs. While talking to one of the ...