HUMA 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Terza Rima, Purgatory, Seven Deadly Sins

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1125
• Professor: Tom Cohen

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Allegory in general in dante the poetry the method of exempla the man the city the cosmos [for this see next lecture, week 11] hell and purgatory the vices the larger moral scheme. Do we tolerate it (championing white people) or do we tear it down as york is doing as hate speech. Claim: dante is wrongly thought to be an allegorical poet. Rather, he is the first of the moderns. In fact, he is a realist, i would say. Look at the brilliant naturalism, the precision of his observations of nature: the way starlings flock in winter, not summer, for instance, and i have lived in italy and know that to be true. Or the shape of a landslide outside trent, sloping toward the river adige, on the left bank. Or the exact geography of the rivers that flow into the lake of garda, and out the other side into the swamps around mantua.