For an epic
about Hell, Dante spends much more of his time concerned with humanity than deity. Dante
delineates the various human vices and sins that lead people to eternal damnation and the
punishment he believes is allotted to them. In particular, he chooses to focus on many of his
contemporaries, or other people he believes are worth mentioning in his exploration of Hell,
including great people of antiquity, Popes who have failed the world, and rulers of the
world.
Thats not to say he omits divinity and deity in his analysis.
Certainly, he spends a good deal of time on the precepts of God, the actions of Christ and
various saints, and how to emulate these beatific beings.
Dante presents
divinity in a dual form: both as distant and impersonal in our affairs and also as...
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