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Dante's Inferno: Brunetto Latini
Title: Dante's Inferno: Brunetto Latini
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 327 | Pages: 1.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dante's Inferno: Brunetto Latini
Brunetto Latini: “The Sinner”
From Dante’s description of Brunetto Latini, one is able to find that on earth the two had been great friends. Brunetto was Dante’s role model and mentor, and they had shared many great times together. These men were highly involved in politics, and both incorporated their political opinions into their works. Dante is very touched by seeing his mentor in Hell. Although further in the poem Brunetto admits his …showed first 75 words of 327 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 327 total…However, Brunetto does not repent his “sin”. He simply asks for Dante to let him live on through his work Tesoro. Dante will surely do this, as he said, “ ’Within my memory is fixed- and now/ moves me- your dear, your kind paternal image/ when, in the world above, .../ you taught me how man makes himself eternal...’” (1347). As Dante and Brunetto were great friends on earth, they both will remember one another for all eternity.
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