HUM 2 Lecture 23: Dante: The Divine Comedy - 5/18/16
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3 conical spirals: left & down into hell; right & up through purgatory, and heavens. Dante goes left as he descends deeper into hell to the center of the world, and then he inverts as he goes up the mountain in purgatory (goes right and up) Hell - subdivided into 3 regions, and each of these is subdivided to make 9 circles. Lines written in threes where the rhyme is like a sandwich pattern: aba bcb cdc ded ) Position and wordcount of certain names & words. Appears in 64th canto of 100 (63 before, 36 after) Sits in 3rd row of paradise rose, named 3rd of 9 women * Francesca: named 5th of 9 women in inferno 5* 5, lines 100, 103, 106 - 3 terzine start with love ; 5 times in 9 vv. In the inferno: 9 times before canto 5, 9 times after canto 5. 1st appearance of love - canto 1. 39; last in canto 30. 39.
