Dore & Dante « Modern Languages 5304

Dore & Dante

Posted by gio23 on February 13, 2007

According to Dr. Conway, in the poem “Benedetto sia’l giorno, e ‘l mese, et l’anno” Petrarca’s references and passion to love and nature has Romantic elements in it.This interpretation of Dante and Virgilio in the Inferno Canto I by Dore (famous for his illustration of Don Quixote), takes us to a naturalistic part of the outer shell of hell (below Jerusalem). Can Dante’s poetry also be considered Romantic? Is hell part of Nature? Is it the artist’s interpretation the only part that is Romantic?

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4 Responses to “Dore & Dante”

Veronica said

February 14, 2007 at 5:58 am
John, what is your concept of nature? depending on your answer, you can decide if hell is part of nature.
J.D. said

February 16, 2007 at 1:41 am
Shame on me for being a Spanish major and I have yet to read Don Quixote..oh well, I still have a couple of years to do that but I do wonder about your question of hell as nature. I believe Nature was created by God. Did God create Hell? I think so. Thus, A=B and B=C so A=C and thus Nature is Hell? Ok, I was just doing the Voltaire oversimplifying of math as he referred to once in Candide I believe.
ortiz5304 said

February 17, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I don’t know if Hell is a part of Nature, but surely Nature can be hellish. I need to look at Dante again, however, before I can give a reasonable comment on this. Good question to pose!
Christopher Conway said

February 19, 2007 at 5:29 am
I wouldn’t say Petrarch is Romantic. Just one poems is reminiscent of Romanticism. These kinds of statements can get me into trouble! I try to qualify things a little.