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born in Votkinsk, Russia and died in St. Petersburg.(Britannica) Tchaikovsky was a composer in Romantic Era. (Wikipedia) At the very end of 1875, he left Russia to travel in Europe. In November 1876 he finished his symphonic fantasia Francesca da Rimini.(Wikipedia) Earlier that year, he had completed the composition of Swan Lake, which was the first in his famous trilogy of ballets. The ballet’s premiere took place on February 20, 1877, but it was not a success because of poor staging and choreography

The son of a goldsmith, in Florence, Italy, Lorenzo Ghiberti would become one of the most influential Artists of the early Renaissance.A child prodigy, he received his first commission at age 23. Ghiberti multi-tasked much of his work including the doors for the Florence baptistery and numerous statues. He was a student of humanism and incorporated much of its philosophy into his work. Lorenzo was born in Pelago, near Florence, Italy, in 1378 (the exact month and day of his birth are unknown)

Francesca was married to a brave warrior named Giovanni Malatesta. But when Francesca came to Rimini for Malatesta, she met Paolo, his younger brother. They fell in love, despite the fact that Paolo was married and had two children and Francesca was married to his brother. They continued to have an affair for years, until Malatesta surprised them

Deceit and Sexual Women’s Sexual Sins in Dante’s Inferno Dante’s representations of women and feminine sexuality in the Inferno show contrasts within the various natures of women and their sexuality. His era’s vision of the perfect woman one that idealized beauty, passiveness and purity is represented by his life long love Beatrice. This ideal and its representation in Beatrice are contrasted with the dark depictions of women, their sexual sins, devious devices, and evil act, which Dante

Love is a Sin(?) Within Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, many sins are approached, analyzed, and punished. One of them, of course, happens to be lust. Within Canto V, we are introduced to a couple who seem to be guilty of the crime. Enter Francesca da Rimini and her brother-in-law Paolo Malatesta, two lovers who read, caught each other’s eye, and read no more. I do not consider their particular situation to be a transgression however, and I do not believe this act should place them in Dante’s second circle

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to punish his angels when they fell from grace. For example a love of wealth and power, drives many souls to commit terrible sins. The second circle of hell contains those sinners who gave into excessive lust, including the memorable Francesca da Rimini. These sinners follow lust and desire, rather than chaste love like that between Dante and Beatrice. Dante also includes Sodomites in his vision of hell, a category including those who engage in homosexual

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he became a professor of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1875, acclaim came readily for Tchaikovsky as he embarked on a tour of Europe. During this time he published his most famous ballets, including Swan Lake and the fantasy Francesca da Rimini. Tchaikovsky displayed an unusually wide stylistic and emotional range, from salon works of innocuous charm to symphonies and operas of tremendous depth, power and grandeur. As a Romantic composer, he emulated the emotionality of the period, drawing

Dante’s Inferno follows the allegorical journey of Dante, who loses sight of the true path, representing good faith, and must travel through hell, among other places, to return to the path by trusting God and avoiding sin. Canto I of the story involves Dante, in the middle of his life where he has both human experience and time to improve, lost in the dark wilderness, threatened by beasts and unable to escape. In fact, darkness pervades in the first thirty-four cantos of the Comedy. It is important