What Does Virgil Say To Dante?

What does Virgil say to Dante? Virgil explains to Dante that

if he wants to be saved he must go through Hell and Purgatory and offers to guide him

. Then Virgil says that if Dante wants to go to Heaven someone else must accompany him―Beatrice―because God does not allow pagans to enter.

Why does Virgil cover Dante’s eyes?

Virgil tells Dante to cover his eyes,

because if he is turned to stone by Medusa he will be trapped in hell forever

. Virgil’s words again fail to have their usual effect on Dante here.

Is Dante in love with Virgil?

Dante and Virgil’s relationship becomes one of love and trust as they journey through Hell

. As such, Hell is dark and frozen place because the lack of love and light brings only destruction and separation.

How do Dante and Virgil reach the 9th circle?

Antaeus, who can speak, is probably unfettered because he was born after his brothers waged war against the gods. He is therefore able to

lift Dante and Virgil and deposit them on the floor of the ninth and final circle of hell

(Inf.

What did Virgil say about Augustus?

Virgil’s propagandistic efforts were not limited to the Aeneid, however. The man could not get enough of praising Augustus. In his 4th Eclogue, Virgil calls Augustus King Apollo:

under whom the iron brood shall at last cease and a golden race spring up throughout the world!

What was Virgil’s education? Virgil was educated at Cremona, at Milan, and finally at Rome, acquiring a thorough knowledge of Greek and Roman authors, especially of the poets, and receiving detailed training in

rhetoric and philosophy

. It is known that one of his teachers was the Epicurean Siro.

Dante and Argenti exchange words, and Dante wishes that Argenti receive further punishment. Virgil praises Dante for his comment, and says that

Dante will get his wish

. Shortly, other shades descend upon Argenti and tear him to bits.

What does Virgil warn Dante about Medusa? Why? He warns Dante

not to look into her eyes because if he does he will be turned into stone and stuck in hell forever.

Filled mainly with Greeks, who Dante hate, his political enemies, including

popes, and traitors

, with the worst punishment to those who betrayed his idol, Julius Caesar. In the first precinct of Circle Seven we see a “river of blood; and in it boil all those who have by force, assaulted others” (XII, 47-48).

In the final canto of the Inferno,

Dante and Virgil leave Lucifer imprisoned in ice at the bottom of Hell and climb down his legs to come out the other side of Hell, on the opposite side of the world

. It is night, so Dante and Virgil are able to “see, once more, the stars.” Inferno thus concludes on a note of hope.

The Aeneid was written to praise Augustus

by drawing parallels between him and the protagonist, Aeneas. Virgil does so by mirroring Caesar with Aeneas and by creating a direct lineage between Aeneas and Augustus.

Virgil’s purpose was

to write a myth of Rome’s origins that would emphasize the grandeur and legitimize the success of an empire that had conquered most of the known world

.

In short, the question of Virgil’s telepathy has been structured as al ternatives of (1) “

Virgil is superhuman and can read Dante’s mind

” or (2) “he is the shade of an ordinary human being, and therefore cannot.” Such a rigid dichotomy seems ill-suited to our age of deconstruction and fuzzy logic, and, I suggest, would …

But Virgil rebukes Dante because

he wants him to remember that it is the sinners own faults for being in hell and forever punished

. In their life they didn’t repent and are therefore paying the price, not because of God being cruel, but because that is what they deserve.

Poems

Who carries Dante and Virgil down the Great Barrier? How is he summoned?

Geryon, who is summoned by Dante’s cord

, which Virgil drops over the edge of the great barrier. Which sinners are assigned to the first five bowges of the Eighth Circle, in respective order?

November 28, 2021

Produced by Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade studio, the video is a memorial to the late-great designer and artistic architect Virgil Abloh, who

passed away unexpectedly last November following a private two-plus-year battle with a rare, aggressive form of cancer

. He was just 41 years old.