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* [[First Installment Wins]]: As noted above, there is much more awareness of ''Inferno'' than ''Purgatorio'' or ''Paradiso.''
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The punishment of corrupt politicians -- being trapped in boiling pitch -- is especially [[Ironic Hell|ironic]] considering the politics behind oil today.
* [[Intended Audience Reaction]]: Beatrice is used by [[This Wiki]] as the example of a "good" [[Mary Sue]] to show that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]. Dante is similarly a "good" [[Marty Stu]].
** Dante isn't a [[Marty Stu]], he's got loads of character faults: he's cowardly, petty, violent at times and he submits himself to the penances for Pride, Lust, and Wrath in Purgatory. Beatrice's faultlessness can possibly be explained by the fact that Dante was madly in love with her when he wrote the poem.
*** He is also a [[Marty Stu]] in the sense that he lavishes a ''huge'' amount of praise on his own writing skills. In Canto IV of ''Inferno'', Dante and Virgil meet up with the ghosts of Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. All five of these great poets from history -- the 4 they meet, and Virgil -- then accept Dante as a ''sixth member'' of their exalted group, as if to say he was their equal.
*** While there's no doubt that Dante was being a bit egotistical keep in mind that he is still studied centuries later and his work receives numerous allusions in modern fiction. He seems to be pretty on the level with them in terms of how much he influenced society.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]: The episode of Ulysses' last journey (Hell, 26th canto) is usually regarded as an epic one and one of the best-remembered moments of the whole poem (Men are not thou to live as brutes... etc).
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: There's probably at least one Infernal punishment that will tap into a person's primal fears, even if they're not guilty of the associated sin; if they are, maybe it'll [[Scare'Em Straight]].
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*** Would he really be in Hell if he didn't do it?
* [[Painful Rhyme]]: Since [[wikipedia:Terza rima|terza rima]] is much harder to pull off in English than in Italian, some translations fall into this.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Ugolino's backstory and tragic death.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In Canto IV of Paradisio, Dante asks Beatrice why the nuns who have been raped (in both the old school meaning as well as [very likely] the contemporary meaning) are placed in the sphere furthest from God's love, to which Beatrice replies that people are complicit in the violence acted upon them.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: A'plenty. Remember, this ''is'' medieval Christianity.
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** In Dante's Hell, thieves and counterfeiters are regarded as worse sinners than murderers. The First Circle (Limbo) consists of "virtuous pagans" and the unbaptised, whose only real crime is not being Christian. Nowadays, condemning someone to hell for such a fact is generally considered a wee bit harsh.
*** However, and perhaps ironically, quite a few "virtuous pagans" [[Values Resonance|end up in Purgatory]]. Some translators noted that this was usually due to some [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and general [[The Messiah|messianic ideals]].
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: The final cantos of ''Purgatorio'' describe creatures that wouldn't be out of place in the biblical Book of Daniel or Revelation to John. These included 6-winged angels with eyes covering their wings, a gryphon, an analogue for the Whore of Babylon, and a giant who abused said Whore of Babylon.
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