ITA332H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Purgatory, Courtly Love, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Part of the tradition of courtly love & the sweet new style. Vide cor meum is a song composed by patrick cassidy based on dante"s la vita nuova specifically on the sonnet. Divising another work of which i say of her what no one has ever said, the other book he is talking about is divine comedy. Midway through the journey i found myself that i had lost myself in a straightforward path. He tries to ascend to the light but his path is blocked by 3 beasts (allegorical) Virgil (one of his beloved classical poets appears to him) He tells him you cannot go that way your journey is first down to hell then purgatory then you can ascend to heaven. Voyage in the afterlife through hell, purgatory & paradise. 33 cantos each + 1 (inf. 1) of introduction. Jerusalam was painted as being the center or middle of the world.