okay, i don't understand lines 67 to line 96 in Canto 7.
2007-10-30 03:50:40 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
In these lines, Virgil is describing a piece of how he (or perhaps Dante) believes the universe to be run.
In this case, he suggests that one of God's agents in the world is an entity called (appropriately enough) Fortune. It is her job to make sure the wealth and good material things move freely through the lands, passing from one person to the next and even from one people and nation to the next. And like most divine things, there is a reason and a method that she uses to do this, but they are beyond the understanding of man.
This, then, is why the misers and spendthrifts are being punished in Hell - they tried to defy Fortune and thereby defy God. They cursed her or each other in life instead of seeing that the true problem was inside themselves and their obsession with ephemeral material things. And that is why they are doomed now to labour eternally against each other.
Bummer for them.
2007-10-30 07:33:20 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He grew to become into born into the well-liked Alighieri kinfolk of Florence, with loyalties to the Guelphs, a political alliance that supported the Papacy, in touch in complicated opposition to the Ghibellines, who have been sponsored by using the Holy Roman Emperor. So, no decision yet to be a Catholic
2016-11-09 20:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋