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What tense does the poet write in?

The poet writes in the present tense of his writing (which occurs long after the experience of the vision in 1300) and writes in the past tense of his journey through the afterlife in the spring of 1300. The protagonist or hero or pilgrim is the voyaging-self within the fiction, as described by the writing poet.

What happens between Inferno 1 and Purgatorio 30?

Between Inferno 1 and Purgatorio 30, therefore, Dante-poet moves Dante-pilgrim from a poetic enthusiast who does not care that Virgilio will ultimately leave him to the man whose sorrow at his loss of his father-guide will momentarily eclipse the arrival of Beatrice.

What book does Dante use to translate Aristotle's morals?

As we saw, Dante explicitly translates Aristotle on the virtuous “mezzo” in the early canzone Le dolci rime (1294), a canzone to which he returns more than ten years later in Book 4 of the Convivio, devoted to a discussion of Aristotle’s ethical system in which virtue is the mean.

Who wrote the virtue of the mean?

Aristotle wrote on virtue as the mean between two vicious extremes in Nicomachean Ethics and Dante, by the time he came to write Inferno 1, had already meditated at length on the idea of virtue as the mean.

Who was the first Christian writer to combine popular material with the theological and philosophical systems of his day?

As Alison Morgan correctly notes in Dante and the Medieval Other World, Dante ‘‘is the first Christian writer to combine the popular material with the theological and philosophical systems of his day’’ (“Medieval Multiculturalism and Dante ’s Theology of Hell,” cited in Coordinated Reading, p. 103).

Does Inferno 1 advance Dante's journey?

Inferno 1 and Inferno 2 do not advance Dante-protagonist’s material journey so much as they provide the underlying ideological foundation on which Dante-poet can build. In other words, Inferno 1 and Inferno 2 lay the ideological foundation without which the pilgrim’s journey would lack credibility.