Quotes
What text is this quote from:
“A powerful trunk is lying on the shore/ The head wrenched from the shoulders/ A corpse without a name”
*bonus 100: what two individuals is the "corpse without a name" referring to?
Aeneid, can represent: Priam, Pompey
Was Dante a guelphs or a ghibbeline?
*not on test, but for fun
Dante was a guelph
Name this individual:
- Assistant emperor appointed by Diocletian; legalized Christianity in Rome
Who is Constantine?
Name this individual:
- first emperor of Rome, adopted son of Julius Caesar, controlled all the power of the state, but did so in a subtle way
*bonus 50: can you give both names he was known by? (not looking for the full name)
Who is Augustus?
Who was the prophet who establishes Islam?
Who is Muhammad?
Who says this quote?
"O Tuscan walking through our flaming city, alive, and speaking with such elegance, be kind enough to stop here for a while."
“And who would your ancestors be?”
*bonus 50: explain the circumstances around this quote
*bonus 100: tell me the name of his tombmate and what he asks Dante
Farinata (*50 He was a great Ghibaline leader from Florence and a heretic being punished in the fiery tombs of the Sixth Circle. Hearing Dante’s Tuscan accent, Farinata is intrigued that someone alive—and well-spoken—is walking through Hell, and he asks about Dante’s ancestry to identify his political ties.)
*100 Cavalcanti (he asks if his son is still alive)
Name for Italians who believed Pope should have political authority:
What is a guelph?
What is a Chi-rho?
A symbol for Christ
Name the four positions in the tetrarchy that Diocletian created:
Two Augusti, Two Caesars (aka 2 chief emperors, two assistant emperors)
Who consolidated power of Roman Catholic Church into 1 administrative center (which resulted in city of Rome thriving again)?
Who is Pope Gregory the Great?
Fill in the blank:
“And here _____, his vision told in full, escorts
his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now
through the Ivory Gate.”
*bonus 50: explain the circumstances behind this quote
Who is Anchises?
(Aeneas descends to the underworld for his long-anticipated rendezvous with Anchises's ghost, who reveals Rome's future to his son.)
Name for Italians who believed Holy Roman Emperor should have political authority:
What is a ghibbeline?
Translate and define: "In hoc signo vinces!"
"Under this sign you would conquer", said to Constantine in a dream regarding a Christian cross
"Under this sign you would conquer", said to Constantine in a dream regarding a Christian cross
Who was the last Emperor before the fall of Rome?
Who is Romulus Augustulus?
Name this individual:
- Roman emperor who brought stability, security, and efficient government to the Roman state after nearly half a century of chaos
- established the Tetrarchy
Who is Diocletian?
Who says this quote?
“I saw along the sides and on the bottom the livid-colored rock all full of holes; all were the same in size, and each was round.To me they seemed no wider and no deeper than those inside my lovely San Giovanni, in which the priest would stand or baptize from; and one of these, not many years ago, I smashed for someone who was drowning in it: let this be mankind’s picture of the truth!”
*bonus 50: what are the circumstances behind this quote?
Dante the Pilgrim
(He relates the buried sinners to decorative pieces within the San Giovanni baptismal font - he smashed the font to save someone, even though this could be considered sacrilegious. He relates this to doing true good works, rather than giving the appearance of doing good works with gold and decorations.)
Name for Italians who believed Pope should have authority, but distant (local autonomy needed):
What is a White Guelph?
What is the "letter" in this story referred to?
- Story where Constantine contracts leprosy, is healed, recognizes truth of Christianity, and writes a "letter" giving Roman church the Western Empire (letter was later proved a forgery)
What is the Donation of Constantine?
What date signifies the Fall of Rome (aka Rome ceased to be governed by an emperor)?
What is AD 476?
What date does Pope Leo III crown Charlemagne I as the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?
What is AD 800?
Who says this quote?
"Love, that excuses no one from loving, seized me so strongly with delight in him that, as you see, he never leaves my side. Love led us straight to sudden death together. Caina awaits the one who quenched our lives."
*bonus 50: what are the circumstances behind this quote?
Francesca
(Dante meets Paolo and Francesca, who are left in Hell despite their intense and professed real love for one another. Francesca appears to demonstrate a romantic idealism for her love, despite the fact it was an affair that resulted in her death and subsequent descent into Hell.)
Name for Italians who believed Pope should have ALL authority (won in end)
What is a Black Guelph?
Name this individual:
- Healed Constantine of leprosy, supported donation of Constantine (later proved fake)
Pope Sylvester
Name this individual:
- went to war + drove lumbards (competed politically with the papacy) out of Italy
- crowned first emperor of Holy Roman Empire
- fun fact: Clare has a direct linkage to him through MyFamilyTree
Who is Charlamagne?
Name this individual:
- Pirate King of Vandals who conquered Rome by stripping Emperor of the West of his imperial insignia
Who is Odoacer?