The Bible, Koran, And Divine Comedy
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A 5 page paper. Each work is discussed separately in terms of their contribution to modern society. The influence and impact of the Bible itself can be found across life from culture to law to literature and so on. The contribution of the Koran itself is more difficult to determine although many individual Muslims contributed significantly to areas like medicine, math and architecture. Dante's Divine Comedy greatly influenced several different areas of life. The writer comments on which book contributed the most and why. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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The Idealism of Machiavelli
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A 7 page examination of Niccolo Machiavelli’s contention that he was free of idealism. in Bibliography lists 6 sources. Although he is said to have claimed to have freed himself of all idealism, it is contended by many that his commitment to power itself was a form of idealism. The author uses Machiavelli’s own writings, as well as the insight of other authors to support this contention. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The Philosophical Journeys in Homer’s “The Odyssey” and in Dante’s “Inferno”
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A 5 page paper which examines the role of philosophy in the similar journeys taken in each of these epic poems. No additional sources are used.
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Tomasi di Lampedusa and the Risk Taken in Writing “Il Gattopardo”
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An 8 page paper which examines the autobiographical and socio-political criticism associated with Tomasi di Lampedusa’s book “Il Gattopardo.” Bibliography lists 5 additional sources.
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Torquato Tasso and His Most Famous Work, “Gerusalemme Liberata” (Jerusalem Delivered)
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A 10 page paper which examines the Italian poet and specifically considers how women are portrayed in his masterpiece, “Gerusalemme Liberata.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Torquato Tasso/"Jerusalem Delivered"
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A 4 page research paper that summarizes various points in Tasso's sixteenth century Christian epic poem "Gerusalemme Liberata" (Jerusalem Delivered). This epic dramatizes the successes of the First Crusade in wresting control of Jerusalem away from Muslim rule. Tasso's protagonist is Godfrey of Bouillon, who is depicted primarily as a general and a strategist. Additionally, Tasso allows himself poetic license and creates a fictional hero in Rinaldo, a mythical ancestor of the Este and a hero of almost superhuman force, similar to Homer's Achilles. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Two Literary Concepts of Hell
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An 8 page paper discussing and comparing Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus” with Dante’s “Inferno.” Dante predated Marlowe by three centuries, writing “The Divine Comedy” long before the Reformation and the rise of Protestantism that Marlowe followed. The religious teachings of the times in which these authors lived are reflected in the concept of each of the nature of hell. Dante’s character descends into it to discover its hierarchical spirals; Mephistophilis reveals to Faustus that he has not left hell at all in order to visit Faustus, that they are living in it. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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War by Luigi Pirandello
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A 5 page analysis of Luigi Pirandello’s short story War. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Women’s Roles in Two Works from Late Nineteenth Century Italian Literature
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A 4 page acknowledgment of the variation which exist in literature in regard to the presentation of women’s roles. Regardless of the country of origin, literature expresses the author’s liberty to be either sympathetic to women's roles or cynical as to those roles. Their portrayals can be either detailed, shallow, or stereotypical. In most cases literature produced by female authors is more positive in terms of its depiction of women than is literature produced by males. A particularly interesting point of comparison as to how women’s roles are presented in Italian literature exists in Guiseppe Di Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” and Sibilla Aleramo’s “A Woman”. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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“Dante’s Purgatorio”
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A five page paper which looks at Dante’s ethical premises in the Purgatorio, and the way in which he uses mythological and historical figures in order to demonstrate the complexities of human behaviour, and their progress towards rationality and the control of passion and instinct. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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“The concept of fortune in Machiavelli’s The Prince”
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A five page paper which looks at Machiavelli’s perspective on the importance of good and bad fortune in politics, and the way in which a skilful statesman should have the ability to make use of, but not reply upon, the fortuitous events which might occur in his career. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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“The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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A 4 page review of the book “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. No additional sources cited.
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