Arts and Humanities Questions

1.) Structurally, Dante’s divisions of the 3 stories Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, each with 9 (32) places (Heaven: 7 planets+2, Hell 9 levels, Purgatory: 7 sins +2), the 3 lined stanzas, 33 cantos, relate to Chartres Cathedral’s use of 3s in the architecture. Thematically, Dante’s stories are about the unification of faith and reason with the characters Virgil and Beatrice, is the same as Chartres Cathedral’s sculpture and art on the stain glass. Both works show our relationship to God and educates us as a result of sin how we can make up for sins and where we go when we are sinless.
The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas— Inferno (Hell), Purgatory (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) — composed each of 33 cantos. The very first canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally not considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100. Inferno (Hell): First Circle (Limbo): unbaptized and the virtuous pagans, who didn’t accept Christ. Second Circle: lustful ,Third Circle: gluttons, Fourth Circle: materialistic people, Fifth Circle: wrathful and the sullen or slothful people, Sixth Circle. Heretics, Seventh Circle: the violent, divided into three rings, (Outer) the violent against people and property, (Middle) the people who commit suicide, and (Inner) the violent against God (blasphemers), the violent against nature (sodomites), and the violent against art (usurers). Eighth Circle: The fraudulent—those guilty of deliberate, knowing evil-divided into ten bolgie: Bolgia 1: Panderers and seducers, Bolgia 2: Flatterers, Bolgia 3: simonists, Bolgia 4: Sorcerers and false prophets, Bolgia 5: Corrupt politicians (barrators), Bolgia 6: Hypocrites and liars, Bolgia 7: Thieves, Bolgia 8: Fraudulent advisors, Bolgia 9: sowers of discord, & Bolgia 10: falsifiers (alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators) Ninth Circle. Traitors, the circle is divided into four concentric zones: Zone 1: traitors to their