ITA332H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Courtly Love, Il Canzoniere, High Fantasy
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What is the point that the author is making in the immediate context and the broader context. What happened before and what"s going to happen in the future, reference to the tradition. Or does it lead to further innovations. Paolo and francesca we were reading a love story and when they kissed each other that"s what lost them. Dante has multiple meanings, he believes you cannot love the created thing at the expense of the creator, but he also wants to condemn the very literature that he read, and that he helped to produce. Beatrice becomes revealed truth, beatrice is theology. Dante is always stressing the importance of reason. Reason is paramount for dante and we can read the commedia as free will. I fell like a dead body he knows that if he had not learned to love righteously he could be in the place like paolo and francesca.
