CAS EN 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Italian Nationalism, Habituation, Everyman
11 Aug 2020
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Online free version of dante"s inferno, mandelbaum translation, accessible through. Overall work: the divine comedy: inferno is only rst of three parts, regarded as one of the great works of western literature. Di cult to contend with: intense narrative compression fast-paced! The opposite of epics: express religious ideology. Even modern believers don"t like to talk about hell. Despite all this, dante"s poem has never lost its rank: transcends ideological subscriptions: atheists like it, relevant day 1-current day. Dante names names, places, concepts that people needed to educate themselves on to understand (required footnotes even from day 1 when published, who are these people??) Dante uses himself as an allegorical gure: dante lives in a christian world that is still suspicious of secular literature, even centuries later, morality is still part of literature writing secular literature is niche. Dante was so famous that someone wrote a biography about him when biographies were for saints only.
