This will serve as your reviewer for the ST and TE. Please also search for others terms which meanings are not included (ex. blasphemers, panderer) since they are also included in the exams.

1. Dante Alighieri

3. Background of La Divina Commedia

7. Why Comedy?

9. Form and Number

21. Summary

69. - Dido : Queen and founder of Carthage. She vowed to remain faithful to her husband, Sichaeus, but she fell in love Aeneas. But Aeneas abandoned her and she committed suicide.

70. - Cleopatra : Queen of Egypt whose beauty was legendary, was mistress first of Julius Caesar and then of Mark Anthony. Rather than be taken to Rome as a captive, she killed herself with a poisonous asp.

72. Accounts in the Middle Ages claim that Paris killed Achilles in the temple of Apollo, where he had been lured by the promises that he could have Priam’s daughter Polyxena if he withdraw the Greek forces from the war.

73. - Paris : son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. He and Helen eloped to Troy which caused the Trojan War but was later killed in the war by Philoctetes.

75. - Francesca Rimini And Paolo Malatesta: To unite these two prominent political families of Florence, Guido da Polenta of Ravenna, made a political marriage between Giovanni Malatesta of Rimini,

77. Francesca fell in love with Paolo and was unaware of the deception until the morning after the wedding day.

78. According to Dante, Francesca and Paolo were seduced by reading the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, and became lovers. Subsequently they were surprised and murdered by Giovanni before they were able to repent.