Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Infante
4 Mar 2016
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In history: playing an instrument was always open to blind people; better listening and melody. Icy, sinners frozen up to their heads in ice. Dante"s foot trips on the head of a sinner. Dante used to sympathize the sinners, think it was so bad, feel bad for them. By the bottom of hell he is on god"s side, no longer the sinner"s side. The punishment is a continuation of the state of sin. Sees two souls frozen together in a single hole, one is biting through the neck of the head underneath his. (per bestial segno): a beastial sign, he is eating a head out of hatred. You want me to renew *desperate* grief , compared to aeneas to dido: queen, you command me to renew unspeakable grief . All that is changed is into the word desperate. Ugolino"s crime is quite literally infans (unspeakable) Christianity built upon faith, hope, and charity.
