HUM 001B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Synesthesia, Fokker E.Ii, Indulgence
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Lecture 18: the moral geography of dante"s inferno: explain the background of dante and how his family and florence influenced his writings. Influenced by virgil and homer writing as well as several other antiquity writers: there was a conflict between ghillibenes and guelphs. The guelphs defeated gillibenes and split into two factions: black guelphs took control of city gov. And stamped out the: dante was involved with the factions: guelphs (two factions) White guelphs by exile: white guelphs : wary of pope influence. Black guelphs: loyal to rome: dante was banished from florence. Reasons of how the body can exist with both sensual and religious values: modeled after bible, guidebook to salvation, contrapasso: punishment is reflected on sin, people who never truly lived can never truly die. (the indifferent) Synesthesia: a mixing of senses; when one sense is used to describe something more readily understood through another sense. In media res: in the middle of things.
