Comedy meant start bad end up good. While tragedy meant start good end bad. Since he ends up seeing God in Heaven, La Comedia! Shakespeare's plays follow the same tradition.
@@thecagedsong Shakespeare also had a lot of jokes to be fair. They're hilarious, but only if you have a very very careful mix of sophistication (to understand the jokes) and utter teenaged crudeness (to find them funny).
@@Silverwind87 Oh very much so. If a basic understanding of the language is there (thank you Robert Burns) then a lot of it still holds up to a basic level. Obviously a lot of the cultural in-jokes don't carry so well nowadays; for instance, "a rose by any other name" and "all the world's a stage" have become dramatic cliches instead of obvious puns on The Rose and The Globe.
Well, Dante had a lot of thoughts about the political machinations of the pope in Florence. He was a Guelph, which means that he thought the pope shouldonly have authority in spiritual matters. Plus, that rant against greedy popes in Canto XIX is just so, so good.
lol actually she got that wrong. It is one of the misconceptions about dantes inferno. If you look at the book in detail you begin to realize that Dante puts his enemys is paradiso as well as inferno. Some of his heros are actaully in the inferno. She also got the part about Virgil wrong. Virgil was a hero of Dante, however, virgil really represents the most virtious pagan, Dante needed a pagan to lead him through hell as an angel would not understand hell as deeply as someone who is actaully in it. Therefore, Dante chose a virtious pagan to be his guide. The whole book is full of symbols that represent different ideas. That is why it is remarked to be the greatest piece of literature. This is not what Dante beileves hell looks like, rather it is a metaphor to show how bad sin is. Its a book full of cantropassos.
So to all of you fanfiction writers, don't be afraid to keep writing. Who knows, maybe one day your fanfic will become the foundation of a major religion's perception of the afterlife, like Dante's was.
To be clear, he never actually talked with this "girlfriend of his", nor did she acknowledge him at all in real life, Dante just thought she looked really cute and wanted to get with her.
Ooh, so when teenage girls ship themselves with their idol and write stories about them being together it's "trash", but when Dante does it it's "the pinnacle of literature" and "a work of art" Edit: y'all need to understand what a joke is or get out of UA-cam
It’s easier to sell something that is based on a subject that people actually want to read and not the subject of sexual frustration. And say what you will, Dante had a pretty creative imagination.
Dante wrote a fanfiction where he went on a symbolic journey with a guy who wrote a fanfiction about the Trojan War? We're getting into multiple layers here.
@@zeekthegeek4538 It is an absolute masterpiece of political satire. This video, and most of the videos on the Divine Comedy, doesn't even scratch the surface. They retell the poem as if it were a straightforward narrative. It's not.
Fun Fact: My marching band went to state with a show based on Dante's Inferno, Pergatory, and Paradise. I got to scream at the top of my lungs during the Inferno feature and say the classic "ABANDON HOPE! ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!" At the beginning of the Inferno act.
@@koki4076 I mean you should try not to get more suffering. I hear that by the time you get to hell, you won't ever feel numb to pain, it'll be recycled experience and, uh oh yeah, the eternal damnation without relief, probably without being able to talk to anyone, not being able to shit normally, dying and being revived, and ugly, scary monsters (super creeps) keep you running, running scared. It's just not worth the experience, but if you want to take the L, go for it. Yeet to heaven, not that cold-ass hot-ass hell hole
@@rageagainstthemicrowave1313 Dante was never able to read the Iliad. It was lost in his time, so all he knew about many of the Greek heroes was what the Romans wrote about them later. In Achilles's case, he was given an entirely different death and everything. He instead died after planning to join the Trojans for the hand of a woman named Polyxena who then betrayed him with Paris's help, and Dante probably put him in the circle of lust for that.
I've read a few bricks in my time, they usually just say something like "This building began construction on Octember 32, 2280" or just a dead person's name. Takes no time at all!
Yeah, and anyway Dante's interpretation of Hell isn't mostly fiery. The only time fire is used as punishments are: 1. Sixth Circle: Heresy- Sinners burn in open tombs. 2. Seventh Circle- Third Ring- Violence against G: Sinners are burned by a fiery rain. 3. Eighth Circle- 3rd Bolgia- Thr Simonists: Sinners are place into a hole one on top of the other and the feet protruding out are burning. 4. Eighth Circle- 8th Bolgia- False Counselors: Sinners here are burning in their own individual flame. Plus the flaming walls of Dis. But only 4 punishments involve fire.
What's interesting about Dante's treatment of Muhammed, is that he places him among the schismists, rather than the false prophets. And seems to rate Saladin and other Muslim leaders as among the rightous pagans. This suggests to them, that Christians of this era may have felt more kinship with the Muslims of that Era than modern Christians do with modern Muslims. Dante at least, seemed to consider Islam to be a schisming sect of Christianity, rather than a rival religion in its own right, and apparently didn't think Muslims in general were that bad, merely reviling it's founder for splitting off from the mother church, rather than founding a fresh religion. I find that interesting. Still problematic. But fascinatingly more nuanced than "Die Filthy Heretic" you'd expect...
Well in the early days of Islam during the medieval era Islam was seen more as a Heresy/Schismatic doctrine of Christianity rather than its own religion by the Catholics and Orthodoxies of the time.
Can confirm (got my master's in medieval history) that during dante's time christian sentiments towards muslims (at least everyday christians) were pretty tolerant all things considered. Christians then seemed to have had more hatred for Jews rather than muslims, some suggest it may be because theologians had a harder time justifying hating muslims because theirs nothing in their scripture about muslims because Islam happened 600 years later whereas Jews are present in their literature. Interestingly they tended to view Muhammad in those days as another christian sect leader which were all over the place during dante's time so yea it makes sense that he would've seen muslims as a Christian sect rather than a separate religion.
From what I learned in my mythology class where we had to read this, Dante potentially saw Mohammed as a cardinal that tried to create a schism in Christians with his teachings. Completely off the mark from what Mohammed was but I still think it's an interesting take on the guy
This can be a really good premise for the next Devil may Cry. Dante and Vergil exploring through the 9 circles preventing the Escape of Satan while constantly arguing / battling each other just to prove who is the strongest.
About the gluttons; what's raining on them isn't water, it's puke. And they're also up to their knees in literal crap. Fun fact: it is also the worst smelling circle of hell!
Nina Lima i was going to point it out but you beat me to it lol. Also I would point out, that while I don't agree with the punishment, there is a somewhat twisted logic (pardon the pun) to turning fortune-tellers' heads around backwards... They spent their lives trying to see ahead but now kan only see behind them. Just saying because I thought she implied she didn't understand the meaning.
Mr. Ghostly I think that the idea is that it's not so much the wind, but the fact that it blows the spirits themselves around too. Sort of representing the way that lust takes control of one's actions but also if I recall the wind blowing them around prevents them from ever being together again. Perhaps not the worst or even most logical punishment for lust but that's how I understood it.
"yuck,you write self-insert? So. Much. Cringe!!" Dante: *literally writes how he hangs around with his favorite poet of all time and even meets people he always wanted to met* -had to-
It has been noticed how the Dante main character of the Comedy, is very different from the historical Dante poet. He is weak, timorous (Dante was a war veteran) and not very bright (not understanding the meaning of much of the things that the Dante poet wrote). More than a self-insert, Dante gave his name to a proper character that was fit for the poem.
0:18 actually the word "inferno" is perfectly appropriate because it just means "the lower regions" (like "inferior"), and the connotation of fire is because of the stereotype of hell.
The Divine Comedy is basically Dante’s headcanon about how all the bullies and people he disliked would end up suffering for eternity and that Dante himself would go on super sick adventures with his idols. The man was the OG 14 year old edge lord.
Ironically, in Dante, you get to go to the worst circle for your crimes. So...yeah. They even ask people about that, and they're like "I only did this one thing, but it put me in this worse circle than what I should have gotten"
@@tyrant-den884 I mean pretty much nothing made Endgame "ambitious". There weren't that many crossovers, the MCU had been laying the ground work a long time, Disney was a massive company that threw tons of money at production, it had a massive cult following, and the list goes on. By the definition of the word, Endgame wasn't "ambitious". It was set from success from the start. We just have that line because the internet loves memes.
@@vullord666 sure, by that definition CW's Crisis was far more ambitious. But as a representative of the culmination of the MCU: Endgame was indeed very ambitious.
The greed one makes sense to me, as the boulders are (as I recall) sized in proportion to the fortunes they hoarded. They spent their lives building up useless wealth, and now their obsession is a) the sole focus/task of their afterlives, and b) difficult to bear in proportion to their efforts in life.
@@mohammedyousef3845 I saw this reply in a different thread. You're a little overzealous in your opinion. Especially around mixed company who might not share your view on the world. Why bother? You aren't changing hearts and minds. Not saving souls with these comments. If anything you steer people away. What's the point?
Swampy Foxxer I can't wait for the Self-Insert Pokémon FanFiction I wrote when I was 11 to become one of the most influential pieces of literature in History.
At one point he gets to meet all the great poets of the ancient world who declare him the best poet ever and take him to their party castle where all the virtuous pagans hang out. It is hilarious how fan fiction-y that is.
I feel like some parts may have been missed. Such as in the circle of lust it wasn't simply just a bunch of wind but think of the worst hurricane you can ever imagine. Bodies being thrown everywhere and twisted and crushed within the cocytus. And as for gluttony it was not just simply rain but the bodies more bloated and festering in pools of their own filth and feces as they were continuously ripped apart by Cerberus only to reform in these infected pools to have it happen again and again and again. A little more than just rain.
It is a summary dude...the idea is to not give away all the details while still sharpening your curiosity with the hope people will read it themselves.
@@justafallperson2108 Well reading his or her informative descriptive comment, makes me more interested in trying to comprehend the story on my own. Much more than the actual video summary. Since she left alot of that info out in the video and rabbit raced all through it, it made me more frustrated with the story and kinda disinterested. It seemed like she didn't fully understand much of the story herself, but still decided to upload a rambled summary video on the topic.
Dante in Devil May Cry: *beats the everloving shit out of Vergil through a generally unsavory and oddly baroque building-filled Hell* Dante in Divine Comedy: *writes a self-insert fanfic where he gets along with his pretty boyfriend Virgil through the fiery/cold/sludge-filled/meat grinding pits of Hell*
I can’t even begin to describe how much I just love Dante’s inferno, like it really is a self insert fic but tells us SO much about attitudes and opinions of the time. It’s crazy
Jeez this blew up Lemon Man I'm disappointed in that to, but he's a Catholic in the 1400s, you really can't expect much better lola mae stfu LazyTitan I don't thank that makes him better BlueBerryFairy1 sure will
Fun fact: Satan has four faces (You don’t see the one on the back of the head) because he is a cherubim. These are heavenly beings with the face of a man and the faces of three animals. Lucifer was a cherubim before he fell from Heaven. Cherubim are one of four types of Heavenly beings. (Angels)
On this one video I’ve seen comments from the DMC fandom, the Ultrakill fandom, and the Limbus Company fandom. Truly, this is a timeless work of literature
To be honest, this is the most entertaining interpretation of Dante's Inferno I have ever seen. Favorite part of it was Limbo. He's like a fan going to a con and seeing all the fandoms there before getting dragged off into reality after closing time.
Matthew Bradley Yeah I'm italian so they really hammer it on about some parts so we understand it better but I still agreed on all of it. Especially Odysseus. Actually my main problem with it is that it's really heavy being so unfair and the suicide's forest traumatized me the first time I heard it. But I can't deny it's the best sounding poem I've ever heard. So yeah, all true except that inferno just means hell so there wasn't anything strange there
+Lara Aletta Why did hearing about the suicide forest traumatize you? You should have cheered that justice was served. Suicide "victims" deserve to be tortured forever in increasingly horrifying ways. That's what the Bible says.
Arthur meets Thor at a party in "Life, the Universe and Everything", and God is on record accidentally unmaking himself during a debate in the first book, so if you write it you're definitely not breaking cannon!
"Reading the book wasn't too quick either" At least you get to read a translation. Let me tell you a secret: Italian High School students (including bu not limited to myself) do not. We get the pleasure of having to comb through the original. And that shit might as well be a different lanuage for all I know because Florentine is closer to Latin than it is to Italian -.-
I remember when we were starting "Romeo and Juliet" in my English class. I skimmed the first bit while the teacher was giving some background Shakespeare info, and asked my teacher if I could get a copy in English. It's probably not as bad, but like half the work is done in metaphors and sayings that died out a couple centuries ago.
I don't believe in an afterlife in the traditional sense, but if Heaven existed, then you, sir/madam/other honorific, would absolutely ascend there for that fine marvel of a pun.
Mrkabrat you are right. The author of this may not be a muslim, but it would be more respectful If she just didn't draw him.I remember that terrible event and I appreciate that you don't judge every muslim around , but I want to say that terrorism has no religion and there is no violence in Islam.It wasn't in purpose, but your comment might be misguiding for some people, that's why I replied.
My theory with the rain and gluttony thing is that “too much of something can be bad” I.e too much rain and be more than uncomfortable because of floods and ruined crops
Circle 1: Phantom Limbo Circle 2: Lustful Tendency Circle 3: Stardust Gluttons Circle 4: Greed is unbreakable Circle 5: Wrathful Wind Circle 6: Stone HereSEA (Hehe get it?) Circle 7: Steel Ball Violence Circle 8: Fraudulion Circle 9: Traitor Lands
11:56 "And I gotta say, that is a pretty hefty punishment for two dudes whose only crime was stabbing an old guy in a fancy hat." Don't let Blue hear you say that!
The thief snake pit actually sounds kinda fun. You get to be a snake chasing people and if you bite one, they become a snake and you have to run around until a snake bites you. It's like a hyper aggressive game of tag.
“The seventh circle is actually pretty cheerful from the get go, full of friendly centaurs who aren’t even getting punished for anything. They’re holding down STABLE jobs...” the pun is strong with this one lol
Since I haven't found anyone else mentioning it; one thing you skipped over was that the frozen lake was made due to the tears of the damned which were then chilled by the winds from the frantic beating of Satan's wings. And he was too stupid to realize that it was his stubborn escape attempt was the primary thing keeping him imprisoned.
Well one bit... She skipped and misinterpreted a lot of stuff, I suppose red read a poetic translation, they often change a lot of the information to keep Dante's style but you'll both need a proze version and a poetic one to get a grasp of Dante I say... Didn't the water of Cocytus come from a point higher in hell? It was made out of tears indeed but I thought it was those of the old man of Crete, while the tears of the dammed causes them to freeze further into the river
chase newill not the point, we have the entire Divine comedy, it's just that some of the symbolisms and allegories are a bit hard to define, some things red says however are just not in the original or misinterpreted
I never really understood why you state that "Inferno" is a weird title. It's just the translation of Hell in italian, so... Also! The reason why Gluttony is punished by laying face down in mud is because the sinners had, in life, enjoyed only the finest of cusine to an unholy degree, and now they are forced to only eat mud for eternity. Similarly, in the greed circle those who had spent their entire lifetime accumulating wealth, which is useless in the afterlife, are now sentenced to pursue a similarly pointless and tiring endeavor, aka pushing rocks around.
Well, Inferno, or it's latin root rather, meant the underground but was used for hell because of how it was depicted as being underground. Years and years pass and it becomes less about the underground part of hell and more about the huge eternal fires that burn the soul. That's the evolution of words for you.
@@KazumiKiguma Not likely.Hell is a word of Germanic origin propably a derivitive of Hel,the norse goddess of the underworld.English is a language of Germanic origin that's why they say hell instead of inferno.The romance-speaking countries(Italy,France,Spain and others)use the latin word.
@@KazumiKiguma In Italian the word inferno has nothing to do with fires. It is literally just the Italian word for hell. Trust me, I'm Italian. People do tend to associate hell with fire, but there is nothing implicit within the word inferno that suggests fire. Therefore no one in Italy is really surprised when they find out that Dante's inferno is not very fiery at all.
One of my favorite parts of the story is mentioned at 6:38. The narrator (narratris?) doesn’t talk about it, but its really cool. When Dante meets his teacher friend in the 7th circle (the part where it rains fire,) he begins talking with him and goes to sit on the sand. Dante’s friend immediately stops him and says “No! Do not sit. If you sit here, you are stuck there for 100 years.” Pretty cool and terrifying. Also another fact: if you read the divine comedy in the original Italian version, ALL of the sentences rhyme, like a poem. It’s a super long story and Dante somehow makes it all rhyme. Pretty cool
I was reading Inferno some time ago on English, and I was so fucking confused it did not rhyme, because I read Inferno on Serbian willingly back in high school and everything rhymed perfectly Had to find pdf online on Serbian, because I thought I imagined it rhyming in Serbian. I still prefer my language's version than English
I love how, according to the requirements, we could just call "Dante's Inferno" "The Afterlife" Because if you so much as dropped your candy wrapper on the way to school, you get to be tortured for all eternity.
Fun fact: Virgil gets triggered for Dante's pity on magician's partly because back in Dante's time some people used Virgil's book for predicting future as sort of a party game. Ergo, Virgil could've ended up in lower part of hell for something that he didn't actually do.
Don Slyone Oh. That's pretty sad. Especially considering he and most people in Limbo were already denied heaven for a reason I personally can't stomach.
And it's not even accurate. The theological concept of Limbo doesn't even exist anymore. It was a way station for souls who died before Jesus's sacrifice. When He died, He opened the gates and let everyone into Heaven or Purgatory if they still had business to deal with. It was *completely emptied* and then destroyed because it wasn't needed anymore.
When you consider the allegorical view of the poem, it's not so bad. Being denied heaven means being denied illumination by means of your own wrong beliefs, not literally that god would punish nice people for not worshiping him (though I can totally see him doing it).
Dante was at the peak when he wrote la divina commedia. immense art was inspired by this great poem as Doré, or Dali, or in music, Milton Nascimento and Dullmea!
By the by, for those curious, the full encryption on the Gates of Hell: I am the way into the city of woe, I am the way to a forsaken people, I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!
SouthernSpectrum And here's the original (it's just so much better): Per me si va nella città dolente, per me si va nell'etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore: fecemi la divina potestate, la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create se non etterne, e io etterno duro. Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'intrate. Basically the words are almost the same as modern italian but the grammar and some words are so different that it feels like going from english to middle english. And the cited version of the LAST VERSE is usually in modern italian because the second part would just ruin it otherwise, but in the original it just works. Ok I'll stop now
I had to watch this for my medieval history class and I'm so happy my teacher chose this video. I'm going to watch all of what Dante wrote because this was hilarious and informative.
Fun fact: if you are italian, chances are ( Like, 99% ) you actually STUDIED and analyzed the entire comedy like me, because is mandatory in high school. You will be surprised to know that yes, it is the biggest fanfiction ever written, but surprisingly Dante points out that for him too some of these judgment are extremely harsh, and his constant fainting is because he’s scared shitless that he belongs in 5 or 6 places he describes. Overall, the Inferno is actually an interesting read, and all the punishments are meant to be symbolic, as they are based on fitting the sin.
It's bloody terrific some of the ideas for punishments he comes up with, stuff you would never wish on your worst enemy? of course, but come on, turning suicides into fleshy trees because they rejected the form God gave them in life, the strange weather in the desert to reflect the perversion of nature. And locking blasphemers in flaming coffins because they denied the existence of the afterlife. It's just so intense.
@@KazumiKiguma she explained it poorly, basically they get costantly beaten by rain and hail, cerberus costantly eats them, ripping their limbs, also the rain, hail stones and snow, mixes with dirth, and creates mud, they kept eating in life, endulging their hunger, so they basically act like pigs in hell, and they costantly get munched on by Cerberus.
Actually, it is not the biggest fanfiction ever written, up to january 2018, the longest work of fiction ever written was a super smash bros brawl fanfiction, "the subspace emissary's world conquest". This fanfiction had 4,102,217 words in total, and the divine comedy has roughly 32 thousand in its entirety. In january 2018, however, another fanfiction rose from the darkness and took the spotlight. "Ambience: a fleet symphony" it's a kantai collection fanfiction with 4,418,061 words in total as of january 2018. I'm pretty sure that all this information is correct, but anyone is free to point out any mistakes in my comment. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
@@Nestix_the_stupid_one I think by biggest he meant most influential, not highest word count. There are millions of people who think Dante's depictions of Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory are actually how the Bible describes them, when in fact the Bible offers little to no description of Hell, a very small description of Heaven (NOT the New Earth in Revelation), and never even says Purgatory is an actual thing.
Virgil: Dante? Dante: Uh-huh? Virgil: You know that little voice that people have that tells them to *not* stop and banter with every rando when travelling through Hell itself? YOU DON'T HAVE ONE!!
When I read the inferno in class, we had a lot of fun in my group laughing about Dante passing out all the time. And the slightly homoerotic moment when Virgil was carrying Dante and Dante was singing to him. .......Then we had to draw the levels of hell on a poster board and my group being artists made it into an awesome 'Where's Waldo' type of project with a Batpole and various other silly things hiding around for people in other classes to find. Good memories.
This video series is the only reason I read the Divine Comedy. I eventually made it through, but let me tell you, this series of videos is far more understandable and fun than actually reading it. It really is 90% wish fulfillment for Dante along with being the medieval equivalent of a phonebook or a heavily crossovered Wattpad fic, for all I could decipher it. I can say from experience that War and Peace was a more fun read and in that book, there were at several separate points a paragraph or more of untranslated French! At least in War and Peace you get attached to the characters (yes I cried)!
Late to the party, but... 10:22, if you're considering the Odyssey, please consider also that Dante knew OF it, but hadn't actually READ it. Most Greek literature was unavailable in the West at the time, and very few (educated) people would know how to read greek, anyway. Those works started to flow into Italy during the Renaissance, about a century after Dante's death, courtesy of Byzantine scholars fleeing the (about to be conquered) Byzantine Empire. Dante was stuck with Latin literature and, wouldn't you know, it painted a not so flattering picture of Greeks, especially concerning the Trojan War.
Canto IV >"il maestro di color che sanno" ("the master of the ones that know") Aristotle, Greek. >"Omero, poeta sovrano" ("Omer, sovereign of the poets"), Greek. Dante used the characters of the Omeric poems in the Inferno not because he despised Greeks, but because, other than the contemporary characters, for contrast, he needed characters that were not contemporary but still well known by the people, and that, in Dante's time, meant saints and characters of Greek mitology. But he couldn't put saints in hell, so he had to overuse Greeks. BTW, the oldest surviving complete translation of both the Iliad and the Odissey in latin is that of the Calabrian scholar Leontius Pilatus, whose works were known both by Petrarch and Boccaccio.Dante missed him by half a century more or less.
reminder that in dante's times "comedy" only meant "not a tragedy"
Comedy meant start bad end up good. While tragedy meant start good end bad. Since he ends up seeing God in Heaven, La Comedia! Shakespeare's plays follow the same tradition.
Comedies are also meant to poke fun at those who lack virtue and Dante certainly does that
@@thecagedsong Shakespeare also had a lot of jokes to be fair. They're hilarious, but only if you have a very very careful mix of sophistication (to understand the jokes) and utter teenaged crudeness (to find them funny).
@@clockworkkirlia7475 Shakespeare was essentially a comedic genius in his time. Puns, double entendres, the works.
@@Silverwind87 Oh very much so. If a basic understanding of the language is there (thank you Robert Burns) then a lot of it still holds up to a basic level. Obviously a lot of the cultural in-jokes don't carry so well nowadays; for instance, "a rose by any other name" and "all the world's a stage" have become dramatic cliches instead of obvious puns on The Rose and The Globe.
I love how this book is a huge self-insert fanfic with the attitude of "I went to hell, and guess who was there? The Pope!" and now it's a classic
Well, Dante had a lot of thoughts about the political machinations of the pope in Florence. He was a Guelph, which means that he thought the pope shouldonly have authority in spiritual matters. Plus, that rant against greedy popes in Canto XIX is just so, so good.
lol actually she got that wrong. It is one of the misconceptions about dantes inferno. If you look at the book in detail you begin to realize that Dante puts his enemys is paradiso as well as inferno. Some of his heros are actaully in the inferno. She also got the part about Virgil wrong. Virgil was a hero of Dante, however, virgil really represents the most virtious pagan, Dante needed a pagan to lead him through hell as an angel would not understand hell as deeply as someone who is actaully in it. Therefore, Dante chose a virtious pagan to be his guide. The whole book is full of symbols that represent different ideas. That is why it is remarked to be the greatest piece of literature. This is not what Dante beileves hell looks like, rather it is a metaphor to show how bad sin is. Its a book full of cantropassos.
KricketGaming Okay...so which enemies did he put in the paradiso??
KricketGaming Ok but it’s still a self-insert
EmblemBlade9 Yup, and Dante is quite proud of that.
So to all of you fanfiction writers, don't be afraid to keep writing. Who knows, maybe one day your fanfic will become the foundation of a major religion's perception of the afterlife, like Dante's was.
I would not want to live in that reality seeing some fanfics are questionable
he is also one of the creators of the italian language
One day, people will think that Shrek is the guardian of heaven and the cookie monster is the gate keeper of hell and that they used to have an affair
@Jackson’s Account well yes, he created the italian language, he mixed the tuscan language with the latin and created an old version of the italian
Also Boccaccio and Petrarca did that
To be clear, he never actually talked with this "girlfriend of his", nor did she acknowledge him at all in real life, Dante just thought she looked really cute and wanted to get with her.
CLASSIC
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This raises *so* many questions.
Plus he met her when she was 9
@@user-qu9sb4sb6u Excuse meWUT
@@user-qu9sb4sb6u I mean, weren't they both kids when they met?
Greek dude: exists
Dante: *bippity bell now go to hell*
Greek dude:*Exists *
Dante: Welcome to hell buckro
KiwiCupcake 😂
Lol
Pretty accurate. It was thought that anyone who died before Big J was sent to hell since they weren't christian. Not for being bad, just because.
Well plenty of them just go to limbo in Dante’s Inferno, which is basically just mediocre heaven.
Dante's Inferno A.K.A. Dante and Virgil's excellent adventure.
*clear's throat*
Dante's Bizzare Adventure
This actually happened after they left the Emperor of Rome and his mechanic friend dealing the last demons as the World Tree Fell
WOAH!...
Actually that rabbit that was in Bill and Ted's hell in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey scared the s*** out of me
@@dragonoax Dante's Bizarre Adventure: Circles of Inferno
Ooh, so when teenage girls ship themselves with their idol and write stories about them being together it's "trash", but when Dante does it it's "the pinnacle of literature" and "a work of art"
Edit: y'all need to understand what a joke is or get out of UA-cam
I mean, do they go to hell? I didn’t think so!
Literary analysis is basically the most exclusive of exclusive groups. And I'm an English major.
It's really mostly because it's old, I think
Both are pretty trash ngl
It’s easier to sell something that is based on a subject that people actually want to read and not the subject of sexual frustration.
And say what you will, Dante had a pretty creative imagination.
Dante wrote a fanfiction where he went on a symbolic journey with a guy who wrote a fanfiction about the Trojan War? We're getting into multiple layers here.
"My Journey with the Author of My Immortal"
Nine, to be exact
Pope/Greek Hero: exists
Dante: *I diagnose you with Hell*
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dude turned a wattpad story into an all time literature masterpiece
Masterpiece might be a little too generous...
@@zeekthegeek4538 why?
@@diegoercolani8789 Cus it's psychotic?
@@zeekthegeek4538 It is an absolute masterpiece of political satire. This video, and most of the videos on the Divine Comedy, doesn't even scratch the surface. They retell the poem as if it were a straightforward narrative. It's not.
Lol
This is ten times funnier if you imagine Virgil and Dante as Vergil and Dante from Devil May Cry
That would be extremely difficult since they're not trying to kill each other every 5 seconds.
@@legomaniac213 my point still stands
I mean the end of dmc 5 is bassicaly this
... I think we found the premise for the next game.
@@aceofjacks7071 Nero: n o
Fun Fact: My marching band went to state with a show based on Dante's Inferno, Pergatory, and Paradise. I got to scream at the top of my lungs during the Inferno feature and say the classic "ABANDON HOPE! ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!" At the beginning of the Inferno act.
That sounds amazing.
Dang as a graduated band kid I wish I could have been part of that mayhem
A Dante inferno musical, i need it
Duuuuuuude lucky. That sounds amazing
>commits suicide because of suffering
>still suffers in hell
OHNONONONONO
#depressingmemes
That's how hell works 🤷♂️
Well I'm going to hell no matter what I do
Soooo..........
YEET
@@koki4076
I mean you should try not to get more suffering. I hear that by the time you get to hell, you won't ever feel numb to pain, it'll be recycled experience and, uh oh yeah, the eternal damnation without relief, probably without being able to talk to anyone, not being able to shit normally, dying and being revived, and ugly, scary monsters (super creeps) keep you running, running scared. It's just not worth the experience, but if you want to take the L, go for it. Yeet to heaven, not that cold-ass hot-ass hell hole
Better to renounce Christianity and end up in Limbo, lol.
Dante writing Achilles into the lustful circle of hell in his self-insert fanfic about the girl he met once is honestly so ironic
Achilles goes in the slut hut for his crimes. - Dante
Yeah why the second circle? Isn't the illiad about the rage of Achilles? Wouldn't it be wraith that he would be in?
@@rageagainstthemicrowave1313 Dante was never able to read the Iliad. It was lost in his time, so all he knew about many of the Greek heroes was what the Romans wrote about them later. In Achilles's case, he was given an entirely different death and everything. He instead died after planning to join the Trojans for the hand of a woman named Polyxena who then betrayed him with Paris's help, and Dante probably put him in the circle of lust for that.
Don't nobody tell Dante about Patroclus. It'll mess up his whole filing system.
@@greenredblue There are 69 likes. Perfect.
Virgil: "So here we are at the city of Dis."
Dante: "Why's it called Dis?"
Virgil: "DIS NUTS!"
Ha got ‘em 🤣
Dis is fire
bro, i'm gonna fricking lose my mind
Imagine if it was actually in the book
@@hx5525 "I've been waiting in Limbo for thousands of years to make that joke.
Totally worth it."
“Pretty dense read”
That’s an understatement, I read this book back in high school. It felt like reading a brick.
I've read a few bricks in my time, they usually just say something like "This building began construction on Octember 32, 2280" or just a dead person's name.
Takes no time at all!
@@scienceface8884 Octember?
Read the new translation in rhyme by Clive James, it flows superbly
If Dante can write self-insert fanfiction and become a legend for it then by God so can I
That's the spirit
You go Garou.
Wanna drop your wattpad? I'll read it :P
Isn't that what happened with "Fifty Shades of Grey"?
@@fictionfan0 Don’t forget My Immortal!
"inferno" just means "hell" in italian, so it's not strictly about the fire
Yeah, and anyway Dante's interpretation of Hell isn't mostly fiery. The only time fire is used as punishments are:
1. Sixth Circle: Heresy- Sinners burn in open tombs.
2. Seventh Circle- Third Ring- Violence against G: Sinners are burned by a fiery rain.
3. Eighth Circle- 3rd Bolgia- Thr Simonists: Sinners are place into a hole one on top of the other and the feet protruding out are burning.
4. Eighth Circle- 8th Bolgia- False Counselors: Sinners here are burning in their own individual flame.
Plus the flaming walls of Dis. But only 4 punishments involve fire.
"The hell"
100th like, here we go.
Not just Italian, all Latin-based languages except french I think
Inferno just means “below” yes? Like inferior
What's interesting about Dante's treatment of Muhammed, is that he places him among the schismists, rather than the false prophets. And seems to rate Saladin and other Muslim leaders as among the rightous pagans.
This suggests to them, that Christians of this era may have felt more kinship with the Muslims of that Era than modern Christians do with modern Muslims. Dante at least, seemed to consider Islam to be a schisming sect of Christianity, rather than a rival religion in its own right, and apparently didn't think Muslims in general were that bad, merely reviling it's founder for splitting off from the mother church, rather than founding a fresh religion.
I find that interesting. Still problematic. But fascinatingly more nuanced than "Die Filthy Heretic" you'd expect...
Well in the early days of Islam during the medieval era Islam was seen more as a Heresy/Schismatic doctrine of Christianity rather than its own religion by the Catholics and Orthodoxies of the time.
Can confirm (got my master's in medieval history) that during dante's time christian sentiments towards muslims (at least everyday christians) were pretty tolerant all things considered. Christians then seemed to have had more hatred for Jews rather than muslims, some suggest it may be because theologians had a harder time justifying hating muslims because theirs nothing in their scripture about muslims because Islam happened 600 years later whereas Jews are present in their literature.
Interestingly they tended to view Muhammad in those days as another christian sect leader which were all over the place during dante's time so yea it makes sense that he would've seen muslims as a Christian sect rather than a separate religion.
@@bioticjedi3864 i suspect the logic is "at least the Muslims acknowledge Jesus as a prophet."
@@starsgears9200 yea that part was important
From what I learned in my mythology class where we had to read this, Dante potentially saw Mohammed as a cardinal that tried to create a schism in Christians with his teachings.
Completely off the mark from what Mohammed was but I still think it's an interesting take on the guy
This can be a really good premise for the next Devil may Cry. Dante and Vergil exploring through the 9 circles preventing the Escape of Satan while constantly arguing / battling each other just to prove who is the strongest.
This I need this
Dante already killed Satan.
And Satan².
DMC6 leaked
About the gluttons; what's raining on them isn't water, it's puke. And they're also up to their knees in literal crap. Fun fact: it is also the worst smelling circle of hell!
Nina Lima i was going to point it out but you beat me to it lol.
Also I would point out, that while I don't agree with the punishment, there is a somewhat twisted logic (pardon the pun) to turning fortune-tellers' heads around backwards... They spent their lives trying to see ahead but now kan only see behind them. Just saying because I thought she implied she didn't understand the meaning.
Nina Lima eeeeewwww
But can you explain the lust one?I really don't think wind is that bad.
But can you explain the lust one?I really don't think wind is that bad.
Mr. Ghostly I think that the idea is that it's not so much the wind, but the fact that it blows the spirits themselves around too. Sort of representing the way that lust takes control of one's actions but also if I recall the wind blowing them around prevents them from ever being together again. Perhaps not the worst or even most logical punishment for lust but that's how I understood it.
"yuck,you write self-insert? So. Much. Cringe!!"
Dante: *literally writes how he hangs around with his favorite poet of all time and even meets people he always wanted to met*
-had to-
It has been noticed how the Dante main character of the Comedy, is very different from the historical Dante poet. He is weak, timorous (Dante was a war veteran) and not very bright (not understanding the meaning of much of the things that the Dante poet wrote). More than a self-insert, Dante gave his name to a proper character that was fit for the poem.
@@neutronalchemist3241 so it was not only a self insert but a roleplayed one at that!
Dante was first fan fiction writer
@@KumaoftheForest not really, but it is the longest (or one of the longests)
Too good
0:18 actually the word "inferno" is perfectly appropriate because it just means "the lower regions" (like "inferior"), and the connotation of fire is because of the stereotype of hell.
I thought the same thing
The Divine Comedy is basically Dante’s headcanon about how all the bullies and people he disliked would end up suffering for eternity and that Dante himself would go on super sick adventures with his idols.
The man was the OG 14 year old edge lord.
I've committed multiple sins. Good luck fitting me into a circle.
How about a ball?
If not an organic shape... Then a square!!!
Ironically, in Dante, you get to go to the worst circle for your crimes. So...yeah. They even ask people about that, and they're like "I only did this one thing, but it put me in this worse circle than what I should have gotten"
9th
Pickelhaube Productions it is not too late to repent
Avengers Endgame is the most ambitious crossover in history.
Dante Alligheri: Hold my wine
Blood of christ *
More like hold my bone scythe
Yeah, no. It's not the sheer number of stuff in there which made Endgame ambitious.
@@tyrant-den884 I mean pretty much nothing made Endgame "ambitious". There weren't that many crossovers, the MCU had been laying the ground work a long time, Disney was a massive company that threw tons of money at production, it had a massive cult following, and the list goes on. By the definition of the word, Endgame wasn't "ambitious". It was set from success from the start. We just have that line because the internet loves memes.
@@vullord666 sure, by that definition CW's Crisis was far more ambitious.
But as a representative of the culmination of the MCU: Endgame was indeed very ambitious.
The greed one makes sense to me, as the boulders are (as I recall) sized in proportion to the fortunes they hoarded. They spent their lives building up useless wealth, and now their obsession is a) the sole focus/task of their afterlives, and b) difficult to bear in proportion to their efforts in life.
It is pretty wild that Dante assigned the severity of betraying Caesar as an equal sin to betraying the literal son of God.
For those wondering about the well-known religious figure that she couldn’t draw...........It was Mohammad
THANK YOU!!!!! I was scrolling for like, 5 minutes to find out who it was!
Muse UA-cams np!!!
Mohammed Yousef what? Wrong comment bro, I was just saying what it was she couldn’t draw
@@mohammedyousef3845 I saw this reply in a different thread. You're a little overzealous in your opinion. Especially around mixed company who might not share your view on the world. Why bother? You aren't changing hearts and minds. Not saving souls with these comments. If anything you steer people away. What's the point?
I'm surprised more people can't infer that's who it was. It's a pretty common thing in pop culture to not draw him.
Dante's Inferno, a self insert fanfic by a guy who wanted to go on an adventure with his senpai.
it is more the hate speech of an unappreciated minstrel against his public enemies, with the tech available in 1300
There are two kinds of people
Swampy Foxxer I can't wait for the Self-Insert Pokémon FanFiction I wrote when I was 11 to become one of the most influential pieces of literature in History.
At one point he gets to meet all the great poets of the ancient world who declare him the best poet ever and take him to their party castle where all the virtuous pagans hang out. It is hilarious how fan fiction-y that is.
Swampy Foxxer
I’m not the kind of person that would write that often I would just hug my cat because she is fluffy
Everytime I hear Vergil’s name I start feeling motivated.
😂
POWER I NEED POWER
Virgil
Me too
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
I wonder how Dante feels knowing that in a video game franchise, a character named after him is brothers with Vergil.
I mean considering how often they've tried to kill each other, he might have conflicting feelings
@@arcticlaw9198 they’re chill now tho
"VIRGIL SEMPAI IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN!"
-Dante
Virgil:" you are not worthy as my fanboy."
@@lyraspasar649 so basically devil may cry
Heh that’s me lol
Phrases i did not wish to hear for 500, alex
Foolishness Dante, foolishness
I feel like some parts may have been missed. Such as in the circle of lust it wasn't simply just a bunch of wind but think of the worst hurricane you can ever imagine. Bodies being thrown everywhere and twisted and crushed within the cocytus. And as for gluttony it was not just simply rain but the bodies more bloated and festering in pools of their own filth and feces as they were continuously ripped apart by Cerberus only to reform in these infected pools to have it happen again and again and again. A little more than just rain.
It is a summary dude...the idea is to not give away all the details while still sharpening your curiosity with the hope people will read it themselves.
Sounds like nurglings from Warhammer.
I will forever leave your likes at 68 instead of 69, that’s the true hell
EmblemBlade9 welll
@@justafallperson2108 Well reading his or her informative descriptive comment, makes me more interested in trying to comprehend the story on my own. Much more than the actual video summary. Since she left alot of that info out in the video and rabbit raced all through it, it made me more frustrated with the story and kinda disinterested. It seemed like she didn't fully understand much of the story herself, but still decided to upload a rambled summary video on the topic.
Dante in Devil May Cry: *beats the everloving shit out of Vergil through a generally unsavory and oddly baroque building-filled Hell*
Dante in Divine Comedy: *writes a self-insert fanfic where he gets along with his pretty boyfriend Virgil through the fiery/cold/sludge-filled/meat grinding pits of Hell*
I can’t even begin to describe how much I just love Dante’s inferno, like it really is a self insert fic but tells us SO much about attitudes and opinions of the time. It’s crazy
It's not FanFic. The idea doesn't make sense projected that far back.
A self-insert fanfic that becomes a literary classic?
This dude's my new idol
Maybe not seeing as he put Mohammed in the 8th circle
Luna Equinox he’s a whiny shithead
Lemon Man wtf this dude is an even better idol now
Jeez this blew up
Lemon Man I'm disappointed in that to, but he's a Catholic in the 1400s, you really can't expect much better
lola mae stfu
LazyTitan I don't thank that makes him better
BlueBerryFairy1 sure will
@@lunaequinox7333 what did i do
Blasphemy: *burning*
Treachery: *freezing*
Just blaspheme after you betray someone, the sins cancel out in hell, it’s simple math right guys?
Modern problems require modern solutions
@Jacob Morgan dont kill this lad's hope
@Jacob Morgan What's considered to be worse?
nah man you'll be burning _AND_ freezing
my algebra teacher said so. if it doesn't we're gonna have some words
Fun fact: Satan has four faces (You don’t see the one on the back of the head) because he is a cherubim. These are heavenly beings with the face of a man and the faces of three animals. Lucifer was a cherubim before he fell from Heaven. Cherubim are one of four types of Heavenly beings. (Angels)
On this one video I’ve seen comments from the DMC fandom, the Ultrakill fandom, and the Limbus Company fandom. Truly, this is a timeless work of literature
To be honest, this is the most entertaining interpretation of Dante's Inferno I have ever seen. Favorite part of it was Limbo. He's like a fan going to a con and seeing all the fandoms there before getting dragged off into reality after closing time.
Matthew Bradley Yeah I'm italian so they really hammer it on about some parts so we understand it better but I still agreed on all of it. Especially Odysseus. Actually my main problem with it is that it's really heavy being so unfair and the suicide's forest traumatized me the first time I heard it. But I can't deny it's the best sounding poem I've ever heard. So yeah, all true except that inferno just means hell so there wasn't anything strange there
Matthew Bradley
I reccomend inferno by larry niven. It updates it alot and is a very good read.
Check out a band called Iced Earth. They have a song about it.
+Lara Aletta Why did hearing about the suicide forest traumatize you? You should have cheered that justice was served. Suicide "victims" deserve to be tortured forever in increasingly horrifying ways.
That's what the Bible says.
STABLE jobs
Get it?
Because their bottom halves are horses
I've sinned
Not gonna lie I laughed harder than I should have 😂
I was wondering why that didn't get more attention in the vid when it was said. Ah well, made me chuckle anyhow.
Olivia M Is there a circle for those who make puns? I guess that would be a terrifying PUN-ishment.
**runs**
dang these puns are *HELLA* spectacular
*follows the other punners and calls over shoulder*
ha punners like runners HAHAHAHA
Olivia M y'all are on fire *runs like hell*
The Hitchiker's Guide To Hell is a fanfic crossover I would love to read
Arthur meets Thor at a party in "Life, the Universe and Everything", and God is on record accidentally unmaking himself during a debate in the first book, so if you write it you're definitely not breaking cannon!
dante: why do i hear… explosions?
V1: BLOOD IS FUEL HELL IS FULL
The centaurs have STABLE jobs, do they?
ohohoho xD
Groan.
They really hoof it too
Do you feel good about yourself?
So did the people in the trogen horse
A 100 years from now, people might actually analyse the fanfics that we've written now. This is scary.
Ult Geek ITS HILARIOUS XD now wait, it could get better IMAGINE THEM ANALYSING *FANARTS*
I look forward to the day my Great-Grandchildren have to analyze the timeless classic for college Half-life: Full Life Consequences.
Troy Jardine i look forward to them analysing memes
Ult Geek “Hello class! Today we will be discussing the timeless classic, ‘Joker x Reader Imagines! ‘ “
Ult Geek Two words. My Immortal. They're gonna think we were fucked up. And they'd be kinda right. XD
Watching this after playing Ultrakill Layer 7 and I gotta say we're totally fucked in Layer 8
How the fuck is Hakita gonna do all that
I pray that in a thousand years sarcastic summaries like these are done of the most famous fanfics of our day.
You don't have to wait a thousand years, they're being done today
"Only part of Hell is actually on fire at any given time, and _the worst bits are rather more chilling..."_
That pun is treacherous.
I see what you did there...
Oh my god 😂
Yep. Yer goin' ta hell for that.
what, you didn't like that pun-ishment?
you don't need to be so frosty
you need to chill out
(I'm going straight to the 9th circle of hell of this)
blue-eyed fangirl And you're not even treacherous
"Reading the book wasn't too quick either"
At least you get to read a translation. Let me tell you a secret: Italian High School students (including bu not limited to myself) do not. We get the pleasure of having to comb through the original. And that shit might as well be a different lanuage for all I know because Florentine is closer to Latin than it is to Italian -.-
I remember when we were starting "Romeo and Juliet" in my English class. I skimmed the first bit while the teacher was giving some background Shakespeare info, and asked my teacher if I could get a copy in English. It's probably not as bad, but like half the work is done in metaphors and sayings that died out a couple centuries ago.
Willie Oelkers i’m italian and in english literature we actually read Shakespeare’s output lol, Romeo and Juliet included
@@annabaars2418 Beats Beowulf in the original text lol
@@Window4503 i mean beowulf is closer to German or Dutch than modern English, that Norman conquest really riled things up
quello, e i trecento significati, la numerologia e le figure retoriche.
Ulysses/Odysseus: **goes on another adventure with his crew**
Dante: Guess who's going to Hell now
Circe🤝Dante
Seending Odysseus in to an Afterlife
Featuring Dante from the Divine Comedy series
Cotton candy heaven? More like Dentist’s Inferno.
i will now die
I don't believe in an afterlife in the traditional sense, but if Heaven existed, then you, sir/madam/other honorific, would absolutely ascend there for that fine marvel of a pun.
I'd say there's a special place in hell for people like you, but apparently Dante doesn't have any royal throne for his version.
With 3 comments you have successfully created the strangest replies section i have ever had on one of my comments
@@looneyblue7783 You that guy/gal/other honorific that says strange stuff in a callous way, right?
@@bart0nius No need to praise us, comrade.
"Well known religious founder?
Me: Wait which one is it-
"Who I'm not allowed to draw"
Me: Oh.
Clue me in? Only person I can think of is Mohammed.
@@rcnrbn You're absolutely right. That is who she is talking about.
And taking into account they have no sense of humour whatsoever she isnt risking being decapitated/stoned to death by said prophets followers
Mrkabrat it is not about humor. As Muslims we are not allowed to draw our last prophet, or any prophet in that case.Also we wouldn't kill anyone.
Mrkabrat you are right. The author of this may not be a muslim, but it would be more respectful If she just didn't draw him.I remember that terrible event and I appreciate that you don't judge every muslim around , but I want to say that terrorism has no religion and there is no violence in Islam.It wasn't in purpose, but your comment might be misguiding for some people, that's why I replied.
My theory with the rain and gluttony thing is that “too much of something can be bad” I.e too much rain and be more than uncomfortable because of floods and ruined crops
*Dante's Bizzare Adventure.*
This. This deserves more likes.
Circle 1: Phantom Limbo
Circle 2: Lustful Tendency
Circle 3: Stardust Gluttons
Circle 4: Greed is unbreakable
Circle 5: Wrathful Wind
Circle 6: Stone HereSEA (Hehe get it?)
Circle 7: Steel Ball Violence
Circle 8: Fraudulion
Circle 9: Traitor Lands
11:56 "And I gotta say, that is a pretty hefty punishment for two dudes whose only crime was stabbing an old guy in a fancy hat."
Don't let Blue hear you say that!
I'm sure he already set some ninja's on her for that.
I don't really follow blue as much as red does he hate julius ceaser?
Politicians would love the eight circle of hell, all that oil.
DRILL BABY DRILL!
is anyone going to make a joke about the 7th circle and jake paul? or have we forgotten about that now
Then american government invades Hell.
that was the real reason why the uac was researching hell confirmed
You do realize that was TAR, not oil.
Vergil sure is trying to help Dante find some motivation
and Pizza
(In the background Bury the light plays muffled while Vergil's nerves become more and more strained...)
I described Dante as a glorified fanfic writer that went mainstream to my classics professor...they agreed
So the third circle is basically the UK
Nah. Ever been to Norway? I've heard the Vikings went to the British isles for more dry weather. ;D
pRahvi0 Jesus Christ . Yeah I am fine I will stay in scotland .
I can agree with that
*shouts in offended British* HEY!!!!
Lord DemonFort it’s true though and I’m British to
*Goes to Proverbial Suicide Forest in Hell*
*Takes out vlogging camera*
*_Gets so much drama from recorded video_*
Sounds like something that idiot Logan Paul would do.
@@abigails.8340 hmmmm
Ricky Leung *_he did it_*
Ooh snap!
5:55 I immediately saw a period pad ad
ME TOO LOL
DOES THE PHRASE “RIVER OF BLOOD” TRIGGER THESE ADS????
The thief snake pit actually sounds kinda fun. You get to be a snake chasing people and if you bite one, they become a snake and you have to run around until a snake bites you.
It's like a hyper aggressive game of tag.
heyyy "Dante's Inferno: Historically-acclaimed revenge fic" would be really good on a shirt if you have a next round
aubreylurvsharrypotter can someone make this I need it now
aubreylurvsharrypotter I
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I always call them Dantilio, it sounds cute
I LIKE POTTER TOO
“Personal self-insert historical crackfic” That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Classics essay done.
So happy this dude went down in history
This dude didn't deserve the attention his crack fic got, then again the most popular Avatar fanfic is the one of Sokka drunk raping Toph so-
Berries 20 sorry, what the fuck?
@@papertroll1876 Yes, i would like to also add: What in the ever loving shit fuck.
@@Berries20 I require the source. For...ahem, academical purposes...
"that manage to escape the BOILING RIVER OF BLOOD."
*ad break about how turbotax is f r e e*
10:46 Achievement unlocked!! : How did we get here
LOL-
“The seventh circle is actually pretty cheerful from the get go, full of friendly centaurs who aren’t even getting punished for anything. They’re holding down STABLE jobs...” the pun is strong with this one lol
Fuck. I missed seeing this the first time I waatched this channel. Should've known that Red is sneakier than I thought.
Since I haven't found anyone else mentioning it; one thing you skipped over was that the frozen lake was made due to the tears of the damned which were then chilled by the winds from the frantic beating of Satan's wings. And he was too stupid to realize that it was his stubborn escape attempt was the primary thing keeping him imprisoned.
Well one bit... She skipped and misinterpreted a lot of stuff, I suppose red read a poetic translation, they often change a lot of the information to keep Dante's style but you'll both need a proze version and a poetic one to get a grasp of Dante I say... Didn't the water of Cocytus come from a point higher in hell? It was made out of tears indeed but I thought it was those of the old man of Crete, while the tears of the dammed causes them to freeze further into the river
Well this extremely old story it hard to find 100% version like illaid
chase newill not the point, we have the entire Divine comedy, it's just that some of the symbolisms and allegories are a bit hard to define, some things red says however are just not in the original or misinterpreted
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Didn’t realize that when I read it! Thank you!
Dante’s Inferno, featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series!
4:25 We built Dis city
On rock and roooolllll
*Self-Insert Historical Crack Fic*
Best thing I've ever heard a book be called.
Me: *contemplates whether or not I should start writing because my stories are like self insert crazy magical-fantasy stories*
Hetalia fanfics in a nutshell
I never really understood why you state that "Inferno" is a weird title.
It's just the translation of Hell in italian, so...
Also!
The reason why Gluttony is punished by laying face down in mud is because the sinners had, in life, enjoyed only the finest of cusine to an unholy degree, and now they are forced to only eat mud for eternity.
Similarly, in the greed circle those who had spent their entire lifetime accumulating wealth, which is useless in the afterlife, are now sentenced to pursue a similarly pointless and tiring endeavor, aka pushing rocks around.
Well, Inferno, or it's latin root rather, meant the underground but was used for hell because of how it was depicted as being underground. Years and years pass and it becomes less about the underground part of hell and more about the huge eternal fires that burn the soul. That's the evolution of words for you.
@@KazumiKiguma Not likely.Hell is a word of Germanic origin propably a derivitive of Hel,the norse goddess of the underworld.English is a language of Germanic origin that's why they say hell instead of inferno.The romance-speaking countries(Italy,France,Spain and others)use the latin word.
Don’t forget Cerberus in the 3rd circle eating folks and cutting them up
@@KazumiKiguma
In Italian the word inferno has nothing to do with fires. It is literally just the Italian word for hell. Trust me, I'm Italian. People do tend to associate hell with fire, but there is nothing implicit within the word inferno that suggests fire. Therefore no one in Italy is really surprised when they find out that Dante's inferno is not very fiery at all.
@@chrisrupp66
Not just cutting them up. Ripping their literal guts out only to then be magically fixed so it can happen again. It's brutal.
Heyyy Italian dude here, just wanna clarify that "inferno" in Italian basically means hell, and can be separate from the concept of fire
One of my favorite parts of the story is mentioned at 6:38. The narrator (narratris?) doesn’t talk about it, but its really cool. When Dante meets his teacher friend in the 7th circle (the part where it rains fire,) he begins talking with him and goes to sit on the sand. Dante’s friend immediately stops him and says “No! Do not sit. If you sit here, you are stuck there for 100 years.” Pretty cool and terrifying.
Also another fact: if you read the divine comedy in the original Italian version, ALL of the sentences rhyme, like a poem. It’s a super long story and Dante somehow makes it all rhyme. Pretty cool
I was reading Inferno some time ago on English, and I was so fucking confused it did not rhyme, because I read Inferno on Serbian willingly back in high school and everything rhymed perfectly
Had to find pdf online on Serbian, because I thought I imagined it rhyming in Serbian. I still prefer my language's version than English
I love how, according to the requirements, we could just call "Dante's Inferno" "The Afterlife"
Because if you so much as dropped your candy wrapper on the way to school, you get to be tortured for all eternity.
That's how Christianity works in general, humans are born sinners and thus go to hell on default unless you kiss god's feet for 90 years
@@trappyboi8678 𝑅𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝐻𝑜𝓅𝑒
@Billy Bob 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭
@@trappyboi8678 Didn’t Jesus die so the original sin was gone and everybody would go to Heaven unless they actively try not to?
@@trappyboi8678 Even the pope said that non-Christians still go to Heaven.
"Dante passes out from the awkwardness"
I get that
Is fainting still a valid excuse to escape awkward situations? I need that for basically every interaction I ever end up in
Honestly one of my favorite "required readings" from high school. Loved Inferno
Everyone appreciate hell while it lasts, before V1 comes along and kills everything.
Fun fact: Virgil gets triggered for Dante's pity on magician's partly because back in Dante's time some people used Virgil's book for predicting future as sort of a party game. Ergo, Virgil could've ended up in lower part of hell for something that he didn't actually do.
Don Slyone Oh. That's pretty sad. Especially considering he and most people in Limbo were already denied heaven for a reason I personally can't stomach.
And it's not even accurate. The theological concept of Limbo doesn't even exist anymore. It was a way station for souls who died before Jesus's sacrifice. When He died, He opened the gates and let everyone into Heaven or Purgatory if they still had business to deal with. It was *completely emptied* and then destroyed because it wasn't needed anymore.
Also the fact he was cleft from crotch to chin... but hey you tried
Which work of his was that?
When you consider the allegorical view of the poem, it's not so bad. Being denied heaven means being denied illumination by means of your own wrong beliefs, not literally that god would punish nice people for not worshiping him (though I can totally see him doing it).
Subscribed for "Virgil-senpai."
Alright, to the second circle for you!! (Lust)
Dante was at the peak when he wrote la divina commedia. immense art was inspired by this great poem as Doré, or Dali, or in music, Milton Nascimento and Dullmea!
“Have you been to Dis?”
“Dis where?”
“DIS NUTS”
"Diet Hell" I CHOKED
Love me some diet hell
INFERNO LITE
I CAN'T, I'M WHEEZING
faroshscale With ZERO Calories and added hint of Vanilla
By the by, for those curious, the full encryption on the Gates of Hell:
I am the way into the city of woe,
I am the way to a forsaken people,
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
primordial love and ultimate intellect.
Only those elements time cannot wear
were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!
SouthernSpectrum And here's the original (it's just so much better):
Per me si va nella città dolente,
per me si va nell'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina potestate,
la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'intrate.
Basically the words are almost the same as modern italian but the grammar and some words are so different that it feels like going from english to middle english. And the cited version of the LAST VERSE is usually in modern italian because the second part would just ruin it otherwise, but in the original it just works. Ok I'll stop now
Fucking hell. Why do I say that? You translated it , then typed it all out. How long did that take.
"Lasciate ongi speranza, voi ch'intrate."
Man, so much fun to say in a voice of doom.
SouthernSpectrum wtf does 'by the by' mean?
MazeOfRozes basically by the way, but i like by the by better
7-4 actually resembles the fire rains in the desert
I had to watch this for my medieval history class and I'm so happy my teacher chose this video. I'm going to watch all of what Dante wrote because this was hilarious and informative.
Fun fact: if you are italian, chances are ( Like, 99% ) you actually STUDIED and analyzed the entire comedy like me, because is mandatory in high school.
You will be surprised to know that yes, it is the biggest fanfiction ever written, but surprisingly Dante points out that for him too some of these judgment are extremely harsh, and his constant fainting is because he’s scared shitless that he belongs in 5 or 6 places he describes.
Overall, the Inferno is actually an interesting read, and all the punishments are meant to be symbolic, as they are based on fitting the sin.
It's bloody terrific some of the ideas for punishments he comes up with, stuff you would never wish on your worst enemy? of course, but come on, turning suicides into fleshy trees because they rejected the form God gave them in life, the strange weather in the desert to reflect the perversion of nature. And locking blasphemers in flaming coffins because they denied the existence of the afterlife. It's just so intense.
Explain the symbolism of the rain for gluttony please?
@@KazumiKiguma she explained it poorly, basically they get costantly beaten by rain and hail, cerberus costantly eats them, ripping their limbs, also the rain, hail stones and snow, mixes with dirth, and creates mud, they kept eating in life, endulging their hunger, so they basically act like pigs in hell, and they costantly get munched on by Cerberus.
Actually, it is not the biggest fanfiction ever written, up to january 2018, the longest work of fiction ever written was a super smash bros brawl fanfiction, "the subspace emissary's world conquest". This fanfiction had 4,102,217 words in total, and the divine comedy has roughly 32 thousand in its entirety. In january 2018, however, another fanfiction rose from the darkness and took the spotlight. "Ambience: a fleet symphony" it's a kantai collection fanfiction with 4,418,061 words in total as of january 2018. I'm pretty sure that all this information is correct, but anyone is free to point out any mistakes in my comment. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
@@Nestix_the_stupid_one I think by biggest he meant most influential, not highest word count. There are millions of people who think Dante's depictions of Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory are actually how the Bible describes them, when in fact the Bible offers little to no description of Hell, a very small description of Heaven (NOT the New Earth in Revelation), and never even says Purgatory is an actual thing.
Virgil: Dante?
Dante: Uh-huh?
Virgil: You know that little voice that people have that tells them to *not* stop and banter with every rando when travelling through Hell itself? YOU DON'T HAVE ONE!!
Lol Tulio and Miguel
...is it bad that I read that in the voices of Dan Southworth and Reuben Langdon?
I like how 5:09 you can see the “stoked ones” facing the screen like they’ve slighted- you went too far red🤣
The echo really works, albeit presumably unintentionally. Really makes it sound gothic and otherworldly.
When I read the inferno in class, we had a lot of fun in my group laughing about Dante passing out all the time. And the slightly homoerotic moment when Virgil was carrying Dante and Dante was singing to him. .......Then we had to draw the levels of hell on a poster board and my group being artists made it into an awesome 'Where's Waldo' type of project with a Batpole and various other silly things hiding around for people in other classes to find. Good memories.
That's amazing. I wanna see
A friend and I tried to list out all of the fanfiction-y elements of the poem. Unfortunately we didn't write it down
Nice
The Divine Comedy
*Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series*
The Divine comedy *and knuckles* *featuring dante from the devil may cry series* *FEATURING NEW FUNKY MODE*
The Divine Comedy BATTLE ROYALE MODE and Knuckles and Tails,featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series and Joker from Persona 5
Ft. El Donte and El Vergin from the DmC: Devil May F@ck you and Ryuji Sakamoto from Persona 5 Racing
Now THAT is what I'd call *comedy!*
So which part is Demi Fiend from?
This video made me love Ultrakill even more
This video series is the only reason I read the Divine Comedy. I eventually made it through, but let me tell you, this series of videos is far more understandable and fun than actually reading it. It really is 90% wish fulfillment for Dante along with being the medieval equivalent of a phonebook or a heavily crossovered Wattpad fic, for all I could decipher it. I can say from experience that War and Peace was a more fun read and in that book, there were at several separate points a paragraph or more of untranslated French! At least in War and Peace you get attached to the characters (yes I cried)!
war and peace is the shit tbh
@@anjelisabel definitely. I can say that Tolstoy deserves all the recognition he has.
For how bitter you make Dante out to be, your art makes him out to be a precious potato
hhahaahahahaha
He looks more like a clueless little nerd to me. Which is just as adorable XD
That's what made me love this poem and this channel 😂
@Joshua Perry guess were all off to Inferno
Lol 'precious potato' :)
Late to the party, but...
10:22, if you're considering the Odyssey, please consider also that Dante knew OF it, but hadn't actually READ it. Most Greek literature was unavailable in the West at the time, and very few (educated) people would know how to read greek, anyway. Those works started to flow into Italy during the Renaissance, about a century after Dante's death, courtesy of Byzantine scholars fleeing the (about to be conquered) Byzantine Empire.
Dante was stuck with Latin literature and, wouldn't you know, it painted a not so flattering picture of Greeks, especially concerning the Trojan War.
Canto IV
>"il maestro di color che sanno" ("the master of the ones that know") Aristotle, Greek.
>"Omero, poeta sovrano" ("Omer, sovereign of the poets"), Greek.
Dante used the characters of the Omeric poems in the Inferno not because he despised Greeks, but because, other than the contemporary characters, for contrast, he needed characters that were not contemporary but still well known by the people, and that, in Dante's time, meant saints and characters of Greek mitology. But he couldn't put saints in hell, so he had to overuse Greeks.
BTW, the oldest surviving complete translation of both the Iliad and the Odissey in latin is that of the Calabrian scholar Leontius Pilatus, whose works were known both by Petrarch and Boccaccio.Dante missed him by half a century more or less.
@@neutronalchemist3241 who knows, maybe that scholar was as salty as Red when He read that Dante didn't portray the story in those poems properly 😅
Hold up are you telling me Dante's Inferno is self-insert Bible/Greek mythology/RPF crossover fanfiction???? I love it
9:33
Virgil: Asps; very dangerous. You go first