MST200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Malebolge, Purgatory, Giovanni Boccaccio
31 Jan 2017
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For(cid:373), disaster, a(cid:374)d the cit(cid:455): da(cid:374)te"s e(cid:454)ile a(cid:374)d boccaccio"s plague. Large scale narrative poetry, epics, hundreds of pages/lines. Limitations of close reading when reading a translation. Always look at the last lines something always going on there. Guido guinizzelli: love always repairs to the noble heart. Structure: 6 parts, 10 lines each. every line has a rhyming counterpart but the order changes. Simile in every second line, love in different ways: Birds, which are not bound to the earth, they can fly, but are timid. Fire, can be timid, ascending, passion, intensifying the bird simile. (cid:862)lo(cid:448)e al(cid:449)ays repairs (goes back to) the noble hea(cid:396)t(cid:863) goi(cid:374)g (cid:271)a(cid:272)k (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s it (cid:449)as the(cid:396)e (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e pre-existing, integral to what a human being is. Noble/gentle heart depending on translation behaviour or class, tension between being noble because of how you were born, or because of your actions. Community of writers: cavalcanti is like the leader.
