Topic 2

Our modern world has changed considerably in the 700 years since Dante wrote The Divine Comedy. Bearing this in mind, your goal is to invent a new level of hell. In doing so, explain your rationale for this new level and, similar to Dante, explain how individuals placed in this level will be punished. If you want, you may list a person/persons (real or fictional) who reside in this level. Develop your answer thoroughly and use passages from the reading as support.

Guidelines

· Your initial response should be at least 1,000 words in length

· Use MLA format for any quotations or citations that you use to support your answer

Readings

Hunt, Lynn, et al. The Making of the West: People and Cultures. 6th ed., Macmillan Learning, 2019. Combined volume.

· Chapter 9: From Centralization to Fragmentation, 750–1050

Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy: Inferno. 1320. 

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 Resources

These supplemental resources are available for your review and for additional information:

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· This resource combines a traditional approach to the study of Dante's Divine Comedy with new techniques of compiling and consulting data, images, and sound.

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· Listen to the beginning of the Inferno, as recited by Roberto Benigni, an Italian actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1997 for his role in Life is Beautiful.