![]() Dante, however, cannot distinguish whether it is a man or a shadow. While Dante goes backward to the forest, he sees a human figure and turns to it for help. The three beasts are allegories of three different sins: the leopard represents lust, the lion pride, and the wolf represents avarice. They force Dante back into the dark forest. While he seeks a way out of the forest, he meets three beasts: a leopard, a lion, and a wolf. The events of the Divine Comedy are set around 1300 because Dante was born in 1265 and rumored to be in the middle of his earthly life, which at that time was considered to be about seventy years.ĭante imagined a scary forest as a metaphor for sin. He did not realize what happened because his soul was sleepy and numb. It is horrible, tangled, and wild, and only the memory of it makes Dante scared. Inferno 1 is the first canto in Dante’s Divine Comedy and perhaps the most famous of the epic poem.ĭante, author and protagonist of the poem, is in the middle of the journey of his life, in a dark forest. ![]() I found myself within a forest dark, Langdon thought, recalling the ominous first canto of Dante’s masterwork, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. ![]()
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