Monday, March 2, 2009

My list of 50 things

Here is my list of 50 things...it is the first 50 people Dante meets on his way through Inferno. A lot of the people on this list are people that interacted with Dante rather than just people he sees.

  1. Virgil
  2. Charon
  3. Homer
  4. Horace
  5. Ovid
  6. Lucan
  7. Elecktra
  8. Hector
  9. Aeneas
  10. Caesar
  11. Socrates
  12. Plato
  13. Orpheus
  14. Cicero
  15. Seneca
  16. Euclid
  17. Hippocrates
  18. Minos
  19. Semiramis
  20. Dido
  21. Cleopatra
  22. Helen
  23. Achilles
  24. Paris
  25. Tristan
  26. Cerberus
  27. Ciacco
  28. Pluto
  29. Phlegyas
  30. Faromata
  31. Minotaur
  32. Nessus
  33. Chiron
  34. Pier delle Vigne
  35. Capaneus
  36. Bruneth
  37. Geryon
  38. Venedico Caccunico
  39. Jason
  40. Alessa Interminei of Lucca
  41. Constantine
  42. Tiresius
  43. Malacoda
  44. Friar Catalano
  45. Vanna Fucci
  46. Ulysses
  47. Guido du Montefelto
  48. Bertrand de Born
  49. Griffolino of Arezzo
  50. Myrrha
  51. Sinon
  52. Nimrod
  53. Antaeus
  54. Bocca
  55. Count Ugolino
  56. Friar Alberigo
  57. Judas
  58. Brutus
  59. Cassius
  60. Satan
I had come with this as my subject for memorization for class before I read this in Yates The Art of Memory:

"That Dante's Inferno could be regarded as a kind of memory system for memorising, Hell and its punishments with striking images on orders of places, will come as a great shock, and I must leave it as a shock. It would take a whole book to work out the implications of such an approach to Dante's poem (95).

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