Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture 12: Comparative Literature Lecture Dante's Inferno
15 Mar 2016
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Music: officium // jan gabarek & the hilliard ensemble: masque for the dead. Dante is the shakespeare of italian literature: born in 1265, vita nuova (1292-93) Falls in love with beatrice (earthly love, cupiditas) Platonic discourse; seek knowledge through philosophy: the divine comedy. God"s love // virgil and beatrice as guides (divine love, caritas) Comedy was not what it is known as now it was simply a story that ended on a high note (as opposed to a low note) Tale of dante"s supposed wild weekend from easter friday to easter sunday in. Cantiche // songs: inferno (hell, purgatorio (purgatory, paradiso (paradise) Each canticle has 33 cantos (3x33=99) + 1 prologue canto (to inferno) = 100 cantos. Each canto written in terza rima = groups of 3 verses. Interlinked rhymes: a / b / a, b / c / b. Thursday, november 19, 2015: c / d / d.
