Life is feudal weather chart1/12/2024 Perhaps it was not by chance that Dante punishes the gluttonous sinners in the third circle of hell with incessant rain, hail, and snow they writhe about in mud that reeks of crops rotting in the fields. Dante completed his most famous work, the Inferno, in 1314. He most probably experienced a series of terrifying meteorological events that hit European agriculture in the 1310s, causing harvest failures, floods, famine, and mass deaths across the continent. In the last years of his life, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an unsuspecting witness to a rapid shift in climatic conditions that led to cooler and wetter weather all over the continent. Source: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons). – Inferno, Canto VI Picture: Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto VI: The Gluttons (Northern Italy, end of the 14th century). Gross hailstones, water gray with filth, and snow / come streaking down across the shadowed air / the earth, as it receives that shower, stinks. I am in the third circle, filled with cold, / unending, heavy, and accursed rain / its measure and its kind are never changed. 2: Informationsverarbeitung in der Stadt des 12.1: Die Stadt des Mittelalters an der Schwelle zur Frühen Neuzeit.
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