Why was Dante banned from Florence for life?

On June 19, 1301, Dante returned his famous answer Nihil fiat to the proposed grant of soldiers to the pope--Dante supported the Guelfs but the the Guelfs ( the other was Chibellines, supported the Papacy and the French) got divided into two sides, the Bianch which Dante supported because still believed in people have the right to decide for themselves, and the Neri, which the pope supported because it supported majority , he wanted popular support. Pope asked his support on the French, to wich danted wrote Nihil Fiat

Not eating plants and animals had to do with a belief in the FOUR HUMOURS

The more someone starved, the more they changed to a livid black color, referred to in Medieval times as GOTHIC They thought that meat and vegetables were bad for them and that by study of the four humors bread was the healthiest choice.

What specific books were on Menocchio’s booklist?

Pecameron, the bible, travel's of mandeville,Qu'ran, Apocryphal gospels, The fantastics, Menocchio named his book lender as Nicola de Melchiori of Porcia. ØTwo other books of fiction, the Qu’ran and the Decameron were noted in the 2nd trial In Travels is divided into two parts very different in content in The first part is a journey to the Holy Land, sort of a pilgrim’s tourist guide In The second is the description of a voyage to the Orient

Where did Dante get his inspiration to write about true love?

Dante was promised in marriage to Gemma di Manetto Donati His muse was Beatrice “Bice” di Folco Portinari. Dante was instantly taken with her and remained so throughout her life even though she married another man, banker Simone dei Bardi, in 1287. Beatrice died three years later in June of 1290 at the age of 24. treated love in terms of the technicalities of medicine and the cosmology of the schools

His two Idols:

Guido Cavalcanti (1250?-1300) believed there is an absolute divide between the sensory and intellectual aspects of love

The 2^nd Guido's poetry of earthly love is finally a foil to Dante’s own celebration of transcendent love

Aristotal for logic, Thomas Aquinas: Natural Philosophy=basic good of humans, Romeigio de cirolami: His ethiscs teacher, St. Alber the Grt. understood both sides of love

What is Level of Inferno is Limbo?

1^st Level

Limbo : The unbaptized & virtuous pagans, including Virgil, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin      

2^{nd Level}

Lust: Souls are blown about in a violent storm, without hope of rest. Francesca da rimini and her lover paolo are here

3^{rd Level}

Gluttony: The gluttons are forced to lie in vile, freezing slush , gaured by Ceberus. Ciacco of Florence is here

4^{th Level}

Avarice& Prodigality:

The miserly and spendthrift push great heavy weights together, crashing them time and time again. Plutus guards them.

5^thlevel

Wrath and Sullenness: The wrathful fight each other on the surface of the Styx while the sullen gurgle beneath it. Fillippo Argenti is here

6^{th Level}

Heresy: Heretics are trapped in flaming tombs. Florentines and Farinata deglie Uberti and Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti are here.

7^th  Level

Violence: The violent against people and property . The suicides, the blasphemers, the sodomites and the usurers.

8^{th Level}

Fraud: Panderers and seducers, flatterers, sorcerers and false prophets, liars, thieves and Ulysses and Diomedes.

9^{th Level}

Treachery: Betrayers of special relationships are frozen in a lake of ice. Satan, Judas, Brutas, and Cassius are here.