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Inferno: Canto 1 -- The Dark Wood
Inferno: Canto 1 - The Dark Wood. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 1 - The Dark Wood. The introduction to the. Is unique in the. The other two books each being introduced by the one preceding it. Its purpose is not only to introduce the. Is that the pilgrim traveler will enter into communion with God, and that promise extends to each of us beginning our journey through hell. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 8:58 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
canto001.blogspot.com 855344. Inferno: Canto 3 -- Vestibule of Hell
Inferno: Canto 3 - Vestibule of Hell. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 3 - Vestibule of Hell. Pilgrims, it is only today that we step through the gates of hell and begin to experience the moans of the damned. The beginning of Canto III greets us with a salute like that of a Nazi concentration camp: "Arbeit Macht Frei"- the irony in the German signage is that freedom came only through death. Here, in hell, which is the second death, there is no hope that peace from woe will follow.
canto003.blogspot.com 855345. Inferno: Canto 4 -- Circle 1
Inferno: Canto 4 - Circle 1. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 4 - Circle 1. We're at Virgil's home in hell, the circle in which reside the virtuous pagans, whom, Virgil declares, "were sinless. And still their merits fail,/ for they lacked Baptism's grace, which is the door/ of the true faith you. To Homer, the Iliad. To Horace, The Art of Poetry. To Ovid, the Metamorphoses. To Lucan, the Pharsalia. And Averroes (Ibn Roschd). Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 9:22 PM. View my complete profile.
canto004.blogspot.com 855346. Inferno: Canto 5 -- Circle 2
Inferno: Canto 5 - Circle 2. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 5 - Circle 2. Could Minos instead of sentencing pause for a moment to counsel, to ask the sinners to be reconciled to G-d, to, in effect, assign some. Souls a steeper but more joyous path? In Dante, there is no hope of that, and Hamlet's resolve to kill Claudius in Act III, Scene iii, 77-100:. Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;. And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven;. And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:. Posted ...
canto005.blogspot.com 855347. Inferno: Canto 6 -- Circle 3
Inferno: Canto 6 - Circle 3. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 6 - Circle 3. This kind of an addiction represents our appetites in a most direct way - mouth to stomach in satisfaction of the flesh. The more a person consumes, the more a person must consume to run the growing mass. Were Dante to rewrite this circle today, he would focus on other addictions of the flesh (like drug use, alcoholism, smoking) in which immoderation in appetite brought us to spiritual putrifaction.
canto006.blogspot.com 855348. Inferno: Canto 7 -- Circle 4 & 5
Inferno: Canto 7 - Circle 4 and 5. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 7 - Circles 4 and 5. In the same way as the gluttonous and ravenous Cerberus guarded the circle of the gluttonous and ravenous, Plutus, the great miser, guards the circle of the hoarders and wasters (the avaricious and prodigal).*. It is entirely a point of speculation on my part because I cannot find any scholarship to affirm this, but I'm developing the idea that Charon represents sexual passion and misdirected love since all...
canto007.blogspot.com 855349. Inferno: Canto 8 -- Circle 5
Inferno: Canto 8 - Circle 5. Monday, January 17, 2005. Inferno: Canto 8 - Circles 5. In Greek myth, we often stumble across Charon. As the boatman of Styx, not Phlegyas. And it was into Charon's palm the soul would have to place a coin in order to secure transit to the Underworld. Without the coin, the dead would have to wander the banks of the river for a hundred years (so, who said you can't, or shouldn't, take it. With you when you go? The River Styx" Lotta Tjernström, 2002). View my complete profile.
canto008.blogspot.com 855350. Inferno: Canto 11 -- Circle 6
Inferno: Canto 11 - Circle 6. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 11 - Circle 6. With the zeal of a Jesuit on the missionary hunt for souls to save, Fr. Earl has raced into Canto XI ahead of my morning post, I see. I did something similar in Egypt, once, on the cliffs leading down to the tomb of Hatshepsut. Henry Wace, in A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. Upon which Dante's structure is bu...
canto011.blogspot.com 855351. Inferno: Canto 12 -- Circle 7, Round 1
Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1. While he is blind with Rage! Into the pass, quick, and get over the side! Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:36 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1.
canto012.blogspot.com 855352. Inferno: Canto 13 -- Circle 7, Round 2
Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2. Saturday, January 22, 2005. Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2. Which shows not only contrition on the part of the poets for having added to the despair of a soul, but also an appropriate grief for the state of being into which such despair has been articulated. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 7:45 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2.
canto013.blogspot.com 855353. Inferno: Canto 15 -- Circle 7, Round 3
Inferno: Canto 15 - Circle 7, Round 3. Monday, January 24, 2005. Inferno: Canto 15 - Circle 7, Round 3. Having left the Wood of the Suicides far behind them, the poets are met in their crossing of the burning plain by Ser Brunetto Latino, described by Ciardi as a "dearly-loved man and writer, one who had considerably influenced Dante's own development" (119). Brunetto's influence is cited by the character that Dante draws as he makes reference to his Treasure. Written before the Trésor.
canto015.blogspot.com 855354. Inferno: Canto 16 -- Circle 7
Inferno: Canto 16 - Circle 7. Tuesday, January 25, 2005. Inferno: Canto 16 - Circle 7. The waterfall of all three rivers we've already crossed is heard in the distance - the mingling of woe, hate, and fire are falling into the eighth circle on their way to Cocytus, the river of lamentations. In this brief mention of the rush of that spill, we get a sense of the funnel narrowing in on itself. The canto ends with Dante's noticing the beast's ascent, stopping in medias res. As though to build suspense.
canto016.blogspot.com 855355. Inferno: Canto 18 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2
Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2. Wednesday, January 26, 2005. Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2. The poets take note of Jason of the Argonauts and cross into the second bolgia, filled with flatterers who wade through a river of processed food (note how I avoid using Dante's 'shit'), the noteworthy being Thais. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:56 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2.
canto018.blogspot.com 855356. Inferno: Canto 19 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 3
Inferno: Canto 19 - Circle 8, Bolgia 3. Saturday, January 29, 2005. Inferno: Canto 19 - Circle 8, Bolgia 3. 9 A man named Simon used to practice magic 4 in the city and astounded the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. 10 All of them, from the least to the greatest, paid attention to him, saying, "This man is the 'Power of God' that is called 'Great.'". 11 They paid attention to him because he had astounded them by his magic for a long time,. 20 But Peter said to him, "May your money perish ...
canto019.blogspot.com 855357. Inferno: Canto 20 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 4
Inferno: Canto 20 - Circle 8, Bolgia 4. Saturday, January 29, 2005. Inferno: Canto 20 - Circle 8, Bolgia 4. Now must I sing new griefs, and my verses strain/ to form the matter of the Twentieth Canto/ of Canticle One, the Canticle of Pain" (1-3). Still like the other fools? There is no place/ for pity here./ Who is more arrogant / within his soul, who is more impious/ than one who dares to sorrow at God's judgment? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:02 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
canto020.blogspot.com 855358. Inferno: Canto 21 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 5
Inferno: Canto 21 - Circle 8, Bolgia 5. Sunday, January 30, 2005. Inferno: Canto 21 - Circle 8, Bolgia 5. Had best not be seen/ by these Fiends till I am ready" (61-2). In his analysis of this, Ciardi writes that "it is only in the passage through this Bolgia, out of the total. Once Malacoda assembles a group of malicious guides, Dante quite rightly protests, "In the name of heaven, Master, . . . what sort/ of guides are these? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:08 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
canto021.blogspot.com 855359. Inferno: Canto 24 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 7
Inferno: Canto 24 - Circle 8, Bolgia 7. Wednesday, February 02, 2005. Inferno: Canto 24 - Circle 8, Bolgia 7. We meet our poets at the beginning of this canto not here with us in the seventh bolgia but still negotiating their way out of the pit of the hypocrites, and just as reason can assist our climb out of hypocrisy were we to employ it to that end, Virgil assists Dante to the pit's rim and chastises him for resting at the end. "'Up on your feet! This is no time to tire! View my complete profile.
canto024.blogspot.com 855360. Inferno: Canto 26 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 8
Inferno: Canto 26 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Friday, February 04, 2005. Inferno: Canto 26 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. 110-11). The ship passed the Equator and arrived at the base of Mount Purgatory where an angel of G-d pulled it underwater, drowning the crew so that Ulysses's death by water precipitated an eternity in fire. Why is Ulysses in hell as an evil counselor, then? Fee-fie-foe-fum - the next canto beckons, and I smell the blood of an Italian. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:21 PM. View my complete profile.
canto026.blogspot.com 855361. Inferno: Canto 27 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 8
Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Saturday, February 05, 2005. Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Respond to the question, "Why do they come to the mall? With the answer, "It's a habit for them in life, so they continue it in death," we find the same answer could be given here. What might we learn from that? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:22 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8.
canto027.blogspot.com 855362. Inferno: Canto 28 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 9
Inferno: Canto 28 - Circle 8, Bolgia 9. Sunday, February 06, 2005. Inferno: Canto 28 - Circle 8, Bolgia 9. Vedi come storpiato è Maometto. Just as Mohamed showed interest and concern in the fate of someone still living, so, too, does the unnamed soul who introduces Curio, whose tongue has been cut out for his crime of counseling Caesar to cross the Rubicon and start the Civil War that would eventually lead to his assassination (we saw Caesar with the Virtuous Pagans, you might say - what's up with that?
canto028.blogspot.com 855363. Inferno: Canto 29 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 10
Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Monday, February 07, 2005. Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:27 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10.
canto029.blogspot.com 855364. Inferno: Canto 30 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 10
Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Tuesday, February 08, 2005. Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. It is important that we understand this much about community if we are to understand the nature of hell (and conversely of G-d), which makes this a good heads up for what you're about to encounter below. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:29 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10.
canto030.blogspot.com 855365. Inferno: Canto 31 -- The Edge of the Pit
Inferno: Canto 31 - The Edge of the Pit. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 31 - The Edge of the Pit. Want to go down there! The point is that Virgil might have too early dismissed this for babbling because it was uttered in a language he did not know; nonetheless, his identity lends credence to it, for it was Nimrod who built the Tower of Babel and tried to reach the gods through contrivance rather than contrition. While they are not to see Briareus, whom Virgil describes in the Aeneid.
canto031.blogspot.com 855366. Inferno: Canto 32 -- Circle 9, Round 1
Inferno: Canto 32 - Circle 9, Round 1. Thursday, February 10, 2005. Inferno: Canto 32 - Circle 9, Rounds 1 and 2. Some say the world will end in fire,. Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire. I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice,. I think I know enough of hate. To know that for destruction ice. Fire and Ice" - Robert Frost". Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:32 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
canto032.blogspot.com 855367. Inferno: Canto 34 -- Circle 9, Round 4
Inferno: Canto 34 - Circle 9, Round 4. Saturday, February 12, 2005. Inferno: Canto 34 - Circle 9, Round 4. We exit hell on Lincoln's birthday, the fourth day of Lent, dancing to the infernal rhapsody, "On march the banners of the King of Hell" (1)! Personally, I would have taken my time and waited till Saturday, but Fr. Earl has already skated across the ice, without passing go, nor collecting his two hundred dollars, and I feel compelled to post today or be damned tomorrow! View my complete profile.
canto034.blogspot.com 855368. Purgatory: Canto 3 -- The Foot of the Mountain
Purgatory: Canto 3 - The Foot of the Mountain. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto III - Ante-Purgatory: The Base o. Saturday, February 19, 2005. Purgatory: Canto III - Ante-Purgatory: The Base of the Cliff. Is created in the shape and form of the Catholic mass (just as the Inferno. Is created in the shape and form of a Cathedral), and the mass is designed to bring us into continuous reconciliation with God. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 12:30 AM.
canto037.blogspot.com 855369. Purgatory: Canto 4 -- The First Ledge
Purgatory: Canto 4 - The First Ledge. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto IV - Ante-Purgatory: The First L. Sunday, February 20, 2005. Purgatory: Canto IV - Ante-Purgatory: The First Ledge. Dante was a follower of Plato. Dan Colvin, Sun Mountain, 2000. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 12:30 AM.
canto038.blogspot.com 855370. Purgatory: Canto 6 -- Prayers for the Dead
Purgatory: Canto 6 - Prayers for the Dead. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VI - Ante-Purgatory: Those who D. Tuesday, February 22, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VI - Ante-Purgatory: Those who Died by Violence. In Ryan Rutan's "Holy Ninjas," the spoof I played in Canto XVI of the Inferno. Where Dante argues for the separation of Church and State), and to the general mismanagement of civic life both in the Empire in general and in Florence in particular.
canto040.blogspot.com 855371. Purgatory: Canto 7 -- The Valley of Flowers
Purgatory: Canto 7 - The Valley of Flowers. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VII - Ante-Purgatory: The Neglig. Wednesday, February 23, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negligent Rulers. Plato, in the Republic. Of the former, Dylan Thomas would cry -. Do not go gentle into that good night,. Old age should burn and rave at close of day;. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,. Rage, rage aga...
canto041.blogspot.com 855372. Purgatory: Canto 8 -- Guardian Angels & Serpent
Purgatory: Canto 8 - Guardian Angels and Serpent. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VIII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negli. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VIII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negligent Rulers. Contrapasso is always at play in the Comedy. That we find him clumsy and naive in his approach to love, someone who did not engage it head on like he does in the Comedy. Someone who pursued the lesser good rather than the goal to which he was oriented.
canto042.blogspot.com 855373. Purgatory: Canto 9 -- Dante's Dream of the Eagle
Purgatory: Canto 9 - Dante's Dream of the Eagle. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto IX - Ante-Purgatory: The Angel G. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Purgatory: Canto IX - Ante-Purgatory: The Angel Guardian. Psalm 91, on which "On Eagle's Wings" was based, reads,. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 2:41 AM.
canto043.blogspot.com 855374. Purgatory: Canto XI -- The First Cornice: The Humble Prayer
Purgatory: Canto XI - The First Cornice: The Humble Prayer. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Canto XI - The First Cornice: The Proud. I met a traveler from an antique land. Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,. Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,. And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,. And on the pedestal these words appear:. Thoug...
canto045.blogspot.com 855375. Purgatory: Canto XII -- The Proud: The Humble Prayer
Purgatory: Canto XII - The Proud: The Humble Prayer. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Purgatory: Canto XII - The Proud: The Rein of Pride. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.". Dante spends too much time with Od'risi, who reflects most appropriately his own venial sin of pride, and on which he'll reflect for some time yet. "Ah, what a difference between these trails/ and those of Hell: here every entrace fills with joyous song, and there with savage wails!
canto046.blogspot.com 855376. Purgatory: Canto XIII -- The Second Cornice: The Envious
Purgatory: Canto XIII - The Second Cornice: The Envious. Tuesday, March 01, 2005. Canto XIII - The Second Cornice: The Whip of Envy. And a moment later he's discovered the purpose for it. Eyes wired shut, these penitent would find no value in movies. Take special note of the catechism section in the activities - I plugged all seven of the capital sins into the online catechism, and the only one of the seven that had its separate and exclusive list was envy. Now, why is that one wonders . . ?
canto047.blogspot.com 855377. Purgatory: Canto XV -- The Middle Cantos
Purgatory: Canto XV - The Middle Cantos. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Purgatory: Canto XV - Love - it's a burning thing. Welcome to the first of the three most important cantos in the entire Comedy. Which is more than just my opinion). These three cantos stress the ideal of love, and they are situated right in the center of the comedy, numbering 49, 50, and 51. Like canto 19 of La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood @ 6:44 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
canto049.blogspot.com 855378. Purgatory: Canto 19 -- Fifth Cornice: Avaricious...
Purgatory: Canto 19 - Fifth Cornice: Avaricious. Monday, March 07, 2005. Canto XIX - The Ascent to the Fifth Cornice and Dante's Dream. Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted.". The dreams we dream closest to dawn are those that are thought prescient and upon which we might rely to tell us what our future brings. In La Vita Nuova. We ought to prepare ourselves against that day by following Msgr. Griesedieck's advice to "live simply so that others may simply live.".
canto053.blogspot.com 855379. Purgatory: Canto 21 -- Praise of Virgil
Purgatory: Canto 21 - Praise of Virgil. Sunday, March 06, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 21, The Fifth Cornice - Statius. For those who haven't read the Thebiad. Which was enough, it seems, to have provided for Statius's salvation in his having read it, but not enough to provide for Virgil's in his having written it. After the introductions have been made and Statius has explained more of the nature of the mountain, he adds that he was one of the "more than a thousand poets" kindled by the flame of the Aeneid.
canto055.blogspot.com 855380. Purgatory: Canto 22-- Sixth Cornice: The Gluttonous
Purgatory: Canto 22- Sixth Cornice: The Gluttonous. Thursday, March 10, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 22 - The Sixth Cornice, The Whip of the Gluttons. Blessed are those who thirst after righteousness.". As for the progress of the soul, let's invest a moment learning from Statius. Statius says that Virgil saved him twice - both of which kept him out of the 4th circle of hell where the hoarders and wasters crash rocks against one another. In the first case, he read the lines of Virgil's Aeneid. Every artistic en...
canto056.blogspot.com 855381. Purgatory: Canto 25 -- Seventh Cornice: The Soul's Progress
Purgatory: Canto 25 - Seventh Cornice: The Soul's Progress. Sunday, March 13, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 25, The Ascent to the Seventh Circle. Ended the 1,400-year reign of Galen's anatomy. In 1628 with the publication of De motu cordis. In this, Dante and Pope have found common purpose of expression, for Pope begins his fourth epistle in exhortation:. Take Nature's path, and mad opinions leave;. All states can reach it, and all heads conceive;. Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell;. Posted by Sebasti...
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canto06.skyrock.com 855383. Purgatory: Canto 26 -- Sodomites
Purgatory: Canto 26 - Sodomites. Sunday, March 06, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 26, The Lustful Sodomites. Having spent the whole day in service to my son. Dante's La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood @ 10:58 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto 26, The Lustful Sodomites.
canto060.blogspot.com 855384. Purgatory: Canto 28 -- The River Lethe
Purgatory: Canto 28 - The River Lethe. Wednesday, March 16, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 28 - The Earthly Paradise: The River Lethe. Matilda, as a representative of the active life, is meant to prepare us for the contemplative life, just as Lethe, which is the river of sin's forgetfulness, is meant to prepare us for Eunoe, which is the river of good's memory. While Dante expresses no desire for this woman in the garden beyond knowing of her and her state, he berates himself in his Vita Nuova.
canto062.blogspot.com 855385. Purgatory: Canto 29 -- Triumph of the Church
Purgatory: Canto 29 - Triumph of the Church. Thursday, March 17, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 29 - The Heavenly Pageant. If MacAllister is right and the Purgatorio. Dante's waltz with Matilda parallels his discernment over the woman with the compassionate eyes, the one who engages him with her look, and he decides she must be gracious and that a love might be found. He writes of her in Canto 38 of La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 7:58 PM. Purgatory: Canto 29 - The Heavenly Pageant.
canto063.blogspot.com 855386. Purgatory: Canto 31 -- The Confession of Dante
Purgatory: Canto 31 - The Confession of Dante. Saturday, March 19, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 31 - Lethe - Beatrice and Matilda. Well, my audience was probably wondering whether, like Virgil, I'd disappeared from this board after being lost in the piney woods of East Texas. I would like to announce first that my family and I have arrived safely at my uncle's house and that the postings will continue as though uninterrupted by my travels. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 8:03 PM. View my complete profile.
canto065.blogspot.com 855387. Purgatory: Canto 32 -- The Tree of Knowledge
Purgatory: Canto 32 - The Tree of Knowledge. Sunday, March 20, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 32 - Beatrice Unveiled. Palm Sunday - the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem, hailed as its king and liberator! The heavenly pageant, both Dante and Statius (who has also crossed Lethe) notice, heads East into the risen sun and the allegory of the corruption of the Church through the wealth it has accumulated since the alleged Donation of Constantine is played out on the spot where Dante stands. But he does so ou...
canto066.blogspot.com 855388. Heaven: Canto 2 -- The First Heaven: The Moon
Heaven: Canto 2 - The First Heaven: The Moon. Saturday, March 27, 2004. The First Sphere - the Man on the Moon. Having proven himself a chemist in his understanding of the principles by which helium works on air in the previous canto, Dante now proves himself an astronomer in his explanation of how the moon is marked - while he was right in the Convivio. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:00 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. The First Sphere - the Man on the Moon.
canto069.blogspot.com 855389. Heaven: Canto 3 -Piccarda Donati & Emps. Constance
Heaven: Canto 3 -Piccarda Donati and Emps. Constance. Monday, March 28, 2005. Paradiso: The First Sphere, The Moon. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:00 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The First Sphere, The Moon.
canto070.blogspot.com 855390. Heaven: Canto 6 -- Second Heaven: Mercury
Heaven: Canto 6 - Second Heaven: Mercury. Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Paradiso: The Second Sphere, Mercury - Seekers of Honor. Ciardi notes that in Canto VI of the Inferno. Dante summarizes the condition of Florence; in Canto VI of the Purgatorio. The state of Italy; and in Canto VI of the Paradiso. The chief problem of this canto lies in the justice of the Jews upon whom the Roman eagle wrecked a just vengeance, and this is something about which Dante will ask Beatrice in the canto that follows.
canto073.blogspot.com 855391. Heaven: Canto 8 -- Ascent to the Third Heaven
Heaven: Canto 8 - Ascent to the Third Heaven. Sunday, April 03, 2005. Paradiso: The Third Sphere, Venus and the Amorous. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 11:17 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The Third Sphere, Venus and the Amorous.
canto075.blogspot.com 855392. Heaven: Canto 10 -- The Fourth Heaven: The Sun
Heaven: Canto 10 - The Fourth Heaven: The Sun. Tuesday, April 05, 2005. Paradiso: Canto X, Doctors of the Church. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:41 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: Canto X, Doctors of the Church.
canto077.blogspot.com 855393. Heaven: Canto 12 -- St. Buonaventura
Heaven: Canto 12 - St. Buonaventura. Thursday, April 07, 2005. Paradiso: Canto XII, The Second Garland of Souls. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 11:02 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: Canto XII, The Second Garland of Souls.
canto079.blogspot.com 855394. Inferno: Canto 9 -- Circle 6
Inferno: Canto 9 - Circle 6. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 9 - Circle 6. We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll. Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll. Say you don't know me, or recognize my face. Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place. Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight. Too many runaways eating up the night" - Starship. Virgil sends up a prayer, and it is answered in this canto as an angel scatters the sinners and throws open the gate.
canto08.blogspot.com 855395. Heaven: Canto 13 -- The Double Garland
Heaven: Canto 13 - The Double Garland. Friday, April 08, 2005. Paradiso: Canto XIII - The Intellect of the Faith in the Sun. Nonetheless, there is still something for Aquinas to say to resolve Dante's remaining question for these souls - for if none were ever born that matched Solomon's gifts, then what of the first and second Adams (not Henjums)? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 6:56 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: Canto XIII - The Intellect of the Faith.
canto080.blogspot.com 855396. Heaven: Canto 15 -- Cacciaguida
Heaven: Canto 15 - Cacciaguida. Sunday, April 10, 2005. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere, Warriors of God. Para 22) is correct, to hell that which we don't understand. It would be unkind to record that had he been a better fighter, he would not have been martyred on the field, and his present joy comes from that's having occurred, but not until after he had sired Dante's father's grandfather, whom we also learn is still circling the cornice of the proud - presumedly for cherishing the new patronym too loud.
canto082.blogspot.com 855397. Heaven: Canto 16 -- Dante's Noble Ancestry
Heaven: Canto 16 - Dante's Noble Ancestry. Monday, April 11, 2005. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere - Cacciaguida's Dialogue. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 9:59 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere - Cacciaguidas Dialog.
canto083.blogspot.com 855398. Heaven: Canto 17 -- Cacciaguida's Prophecy
Heaven: Canto 17 - Cacciaguida's Prophecy. Tuesday, April 12, 2005. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere, Cacciaguida Explains Dante's Banishment. What Caccagiuda provides him, though, is something very important to his focus in the Comedy. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 8:00 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere, Cacciaguida Explains D.
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Inferno: Canto 1 - The Dark Wood. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 1 - The Dark Wood. The introduction to the. Is unique in the. The other two books each being introduced by the one preceding it. Its purpose is not only to introduce the. Is that the pilgrim traveler will enter into communion with God, and that promise extends to each of us beginning our journey through hell. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 8:58 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
canto001.blogspot.com 855344. Inferno: Canto 3 -- Vestibule of Hell
Inferno: Canto 3 - Vestibule of Hell. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 3 - Vestibule of Hell. Pilgrims, it is only today that we step through the gates of hell and begin to experience the moans of the damned. The beginning of Canto III greets us with a salute like that of a Nazi concentration camp: "Arbeit Macht Frei"- the irony in the German signage is that freedom came only through death. Here, in hell, which is the second death, there is no hope that peace from woe will follow.
canto003.blogspot.com 855345. Inferno: Canto 4 -- Circle 1
Inferno: Canto 4 - Circle 1. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 4 - Circle 1. We're at Virgil's home in hell, the circle in which reside the virtuous pagans, whom, Virgil declares, "were sinless. And still their merits fail,/ for they lacked Baptism's grace, which is the door/ of the true faith you. To Homer, the Iliad. To Horace, The Art of Poetry. To Ovid, the Metamorphoses. To Lucan, the Pharsalia. And Averroes (Ibn Roschd). Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 9:22 PM. View my complete profile.
canto004.blogspot.com 855346. Inferno: Canto 5 -- Circle 2
Inferno: Canto 5 - Circle 2. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 5 - Circle 2. Could Minos instead of sentencing pause for a moment to counsel, to ask the sinners to be reconciled to G-d, to, in effect, assign some. Souls a steeper but more joyous path? In Dante, there is no hope of that, and Hamlet's resolve to kill Claudius in Act III, Scene iii, 77-100:. Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;. And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven;. And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:. Posted ...
canto005.blogspot.com 855347. Inferno: Canto 6 -- Circle 3
Inferno: Canto 6 - Circle 3. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 6 - Circle 3. This kind of an addiction represents our appetites in a most direct way - mouth to stomach in satisfaction of the flesh. The more a person consumes, the more a person must consume to run the growing mass. Were Dante to rewrite this circle today, he would focus on other addictions of the flesh (like drug use, alcoholism, smoking) in which immoderation in appetite brought us to spiritual putrifaction.
canto006.blogspot.com 855348. Inferno: Canto 7 -- Circle 4 & 5
Inferno: Canto 7 - Circle 4 and 5. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 7 - Circles 4 and 5. In the same way as the gluttonous and ravenous Cerberus guarded the circle of the gluttonous and ravenous, Plutus, the great miser, guards the circle of the hoarders and wasters (the avaricious and prodigal).*. It is entirely a point of speculation on my part because I cannot find any scholarship to affirm this, but I'm developing the idea that Charon represents sexual passion and misdirected love since all...
canto007.blogspot.com 855349. Inferno: Canto 8 -- Circle 5
Inferno: Canto 8 - Circle 5. Monday, January 17, 2005. Inferno: Canto 8 - Circles 5. In Greek myth, we often stumble across Charon. As the boatman of Styx, not Phlegyas. And it was into Charon's palm the soul would have to place a coin in order to secure transit to the Underworld. Without the coin, the dead would have to wander the banks of the river for a hundred years (so, who said you can't, or shouldn't, take it. With you when you go? The River Styx" Lotta Tjernström, 2002). View my complete profile.
canto008.blogspot.com 855350. Inferno: Canto 11 -- Circle 6
Inferno: Canto 11 - Circle 6. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 11 - Circle 6. With the zeal of a Jesuit on the missionary hunt for souls to save, Fr. Earl has raced into Canto XI ahead of my morning post, I see. I did something similar in Egypt, once, on the cliffs leading down to the tomb of Hatshepsut. Henry Wace, in A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. Upon which Dante's structure is bu...
canto011.blogspot.com 855351. Inferno: Canto 12 -- Circle 7, Round 1
Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1. While he is blind with Rage! Into the pass, quick, and get over the side! Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:36 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 12 - Circle 7, Round 1.
canto012.blogspot.com 855352. Inferno: Canto 13 -- Circle 7, Round 2
Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2. Saturday, January 22, 2005. Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2. Which shows not only contrition on the part of the poets for having added to the despair of a soul, but also an appropriate grief for the state of being into which such despair has been articulated. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 7:45 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 13 - Circle 7, Round 2.
canto013.blogspot.com 855353. Inferno: Canto 15 -- Circle 7, Round 3
Inferno: Canto 15 - Circle 7, Round 3. Monday, January 24, 2005. Inferno: Canto 15 - Circle 7, Round 3. Having left the Wood of the Suicides far behind them, the poets are met in their crossing of the burning plain by Ser Brunetto Latino, described by Ciardi as a "dearly-loved man and writer, one who had considerably influenced Dante's own development" (119). Brunetto's influence is cited by the character that Dante draws as he makes reference to his Treasure. Written before the Trésor.
canto015.blogspot.com 855354. Inferno: Canto 16 -- Circle 7
Inferno: Canto 16 - Circle 7. Tuesday, January 25, 2005. Inferno: Canto 16 - Circle 7. The waterfall of all three rivers we've already crossed is heard in the distance - the mingling of woe, hate, and fire are falling into the eighth circle on their way to Cocytus, the river of lamentations. In this brief mention of the rush of that spill, we get a sense of the funnel narrowing in on itself. The canto ends with Dante's noticing the beast's ascent, stopping in medias res. As though to build suspense.
canto016.blogspot.com 855355. Inferno: Canto 18 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2
Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2. Wednesday, January 26, 2005. Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2. The poets take note of Jason of the Argonauts and cross into the second bolgia, filled with flatterers who wade through a river of processed food (note how I avoid using Dante's 'shit'), the noteworthy being Thais. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:56 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 18 - Circle 8, Bolgia 1 and 2.
canto018.blogspot.com 855356. Inferno: Canto 19 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 3
Inferno: Canto 19 - Circle 8, Bolgia 3. Saturday, January 29, 2005. Inferno: Canto 19 - Circle 8, Bolgia 3. 9 A man named Simon used to practice magic 4 in the city and astounded the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. 10 All of them, from the least to the greatest, paid attention to him, saying, "This man is the 'Power of God' that is called 'Great.'". 11 They paid attention to him because he had astounded them by his magic for a long time,. 20 But Peter said to him, "May your money perish ...
canto019.blogspot.com 855357. Inferno: Canto 20 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 4
Inferno: Canto 20 - Circle 8, Bolgia 4. Saturday, January 29, 2005. Inferno: Canto 20 - Circle 8, Bolgia 4. Now must I sing new griefs, and my verses strain/ to form the matter of the Twentieth Canto/ of Canticle One, the Canticle of Pain" (1-3). Still like the other fools? There is no place/ for pity here./ Who is more arrogant / within his soul, who is more impious/ than one who dares to sorrow at God's judgment? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:02 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
canto020.blogspot.com 855358. Inferno: Canto 21 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 5
Inferno: Canto 21 - Circle 8, Bolgia 5. Sunday, January 30, 2005. Inferno: Canto 21 - Circle 8, Bolgia 5. Had best not be seen/ by these Fiends till I am ready" (61-2). In his analysis of this, Ciardi writes that "it is only in the passage through this Bolgia, out of the total. Once Malacoda assembles a group of malicious guides, Dante quite rightly protests, "In the name of heaven, Master, . . . what sort/ of guides are these? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:08 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
canto021.blogspot.com 855359. Inferno: Canto 24 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 7
Inferno: Canto 24 - Circle 8, Bolgia 7. Wednesday, February 02, 2005. Inferno: Canto 24 - Circle 8, Bolgia 7. We meet our poets at the beginning of this canto not here with us in the seventh bolgia but still negotiating their way out of the pit of the hypocrites, and just as reason can assist our climb out of hypocrisy were we to employ it to that end, Virgil assists Dante to the pit's rim and chastises him for resting at the end. "'Up on your feet! This is no time to tire! View my complete profile.
canto024.blogspot.com 855360. Inferno: Canto 26 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 8
Inferno: Canto 26 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Friday, February 04, 2005. Inferno: Canto 26 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. 110-11). The ship passed the Equator and arrived at the base of Mount Purgatory where an angel of G-d pulled it underwater, drowning the crew so that Ulysses's death by water precipitated an eternity in fire. Why is Ulysses in hell as an evil counselor, then? Fee-fie-foe-fum - the next canto beckons, and I smell the blood of an Italian. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:21 PM. View my complete profile.
canto026.blogspot.com 855361. Inferno: Canto 27 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 8
Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Saturday, February 05, 2005. Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8. Respond to the question, "Why do they come to the mall? With the answer, "It's a habit for them in life, so they continue it in death," we find the same answer could be given here. What might we learn from that? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:22 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 27 - Circle 8, Bolgia 8.
canto027.blogspot.com 855362. Inferno: Canto 28 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 9
Inferno: Canto 28 - Circle 8, Bolgia 9. Sunday, February 06, 2005. Inferno: Canto 28 - Circle 8, Bolgia 9. Vedi come storpiato è Maometto. Just as Mohamed showed interest and concern in the fate of someone still living, so, too, does the unnamed soul who introduces Curio, whose tongue has been cut out for his crime of counseling Caesar to cross the Rubicon and start the Civil War that would eventually lead to his assassination (we saw Caesar with the Virtuous Pagans, you might say - what's up with that?
canto028.blogspot.com 855363. Inferno: Canto 29 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 10
Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Monday, February 07, 2005. Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:27 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 29 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10.
canto029.blogspot.com 855364. Inferno: Canto 30 -- Circle 8, Bolgia 10
Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. Tuesday, February 08, 2005. Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10. It is important that we understand this much about community if we are to understand the nature of hell (and conversely of G-d), which makes this a good heads up for what you're about to encounter below. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:29 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Inferno: Canto 30 - Circle 8, Bolgia 10.
canto030.blogspot.com 855365. Inferno: Canto 31 -- The Edge of the Pit
Inferno: Canto 31 - The Edge of the Pit. Saturday, September 25, 2004. Inferno: Canto 31 - The Edge of the Pit. Want to go down there! The point is that Virgil might have too early dismissed this for babbling because it was uttered in a language he did not know; nonetheless, his identity lends credence to it, for it was Nimrod who built the Tower of Babel and tried to reach the gods through contrivance rather than contrition. While they are not to see Briareus, whom Virgil describes in the Aeneid.
canto031.blogspot.com 855366. Inferno: Canto 32 -- Circle 9, Round 1
Inferno: Canto 32 - Circle 9, Round 1. Thursday, February 10, 2005. Inferno: Canto 32 - Circle 9, Rounds 1 and 2. Some say the world will end in fire,. Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire. I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice,. I think I know enough of hate. To know that for destruction ice. Fire and Ice" - Robert Frost". Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 1:32 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
canto032.blogspot.com 855367. Inferno: Canto 34 -- Circle 9, Round 4
Inferno: Canto 34 - Circle 9, Round 4. Saturday, February 12, 2005. Inferno: Canto 34 - Circle 9, Round 4. We exit hell on Lincoln's birthday, the fourth day of Lent, dancing to the infernal rhapsody, "On march the banners of the King of Hell" (1)! Personally, I would have taken my time and waited till Saturday, but Fr. Earl has already skated across the ice, without passing go, nor collecting his two hundred dollars, and I feel compelled to post today or be damned tomorrow! View my complete profile.
canto034.blogspot.com 855368. Purgatory: Canto 3 -- The Foot of the Mountain
Purgatory: Canto 3 - The Foot of the Mountain. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto III - Ante-Purgatory: The Base o. Saturday, February 19, 2005. Purgatory: Canto III - Ante-Purgatory: The Base of the Cliff. Is created in the shape and form of the Catholic mass (just as the Inferno. Is created in the shape and form of a Cathedral), and the mass is designed to bring us into continuous reconciliation with God. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 12:30 AM.
canto037.blogspot.com 855369. Purgatory: Canto 4 -- The First Ledge
Purgatory: Canto 4 - The First Ledge. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto IV - Ante-Purgatory: The First L. Sunday, February 20, 2005. Purgatory: Canto IV - Ante-Purgatory: The First Ledge. Dante was a follower of Plato. Dan Colvin, Sun Mountain, 2000. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 12:30 AM.
canto038.blogspot.com 855370. Purgatory: Canto 6 -- Prayers for the Dead
Purgatory: Canto 6 - Prayers for the Dead. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VI - Ante-Purgatory: Those who D. Tuesday, February 22, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VI - Ante-Purgatory: Those who Died by Violence. In Ryan Rutan's "Holy Ninjas," the spoof I played in Canto XVI of the Inferno. Where Dante argues for the separation of Church and State), and to the general mismanagement of civic life both in the Empire in general and in Florence in particular.
canto040.blogspot.com 855371. Purgatory: Canto 7 -- The Valley of Flowers
Purgatory: Canto 7 - The Valley of Flowers. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VII - Ante-Purgatory: The Neglig. Wednesday, February 23, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negligent Rulers. Plato, in the Republic. Of the former, Dylan Thomas would cry -. Do not go gentle into that good night,. Old age should burn and rave at close of day;. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,. Rage, rage aga...
canto041.blogspot.com 855372. Purgatory: Canto 8 -- Guardian Angels & Serpent
Purgatory: Canto 8 - Guardian Angels and Serpent. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VIII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negli. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VIII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negligent Rulers. Contrapasso is always at play in the Comedy. That we find him clumsy and naive in his approach to love, someone who did not engage it head on like he does in the Comedy. Someone who pursued the lesser good rather than the goal to which he was oriented.
canto042.blogspot.com 855373. Purgatory: Canto 9 -- Dante's Dream of the Eagle
Purgatory: Canto 9 - Dante's Dream of the Eagle. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto IX - Ante-Purgatory: The Angel G. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Purgatory: Canto IX - Ante-Purgatory: The Angel Guardian. Psalm 91, on which "On Eagle's Wings" was based, reads,. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 2:41 AM.
canto043.blogspot.com 855374. Purgatory: Canto XI -- The First Cornice: The Humble Prayer
Purgatory: Canto XI - The First Cornice: The Humble Prayer. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Canto XI - The First Cornice: The Proud. I met a traveler from an antique land. Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,. Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,. And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,. And on the pedestal these words appear:. Thoug...
canto045.blogspot.com 855375. Purgatory: Canto XII -- The Proud: The Humble Prayer
Purgatory: Canto XII - The Proud: The Humble Prayer. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Purgatory: Canto XII - The Proud: The Rein of Pride. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.". Dante spends too much time with Od'risi, who reflects most appropriately his own venial sin of pride, and on which he'll reflect for some time yet. "Ah, what a difference between these trails/ and those of Hell: here every entrace fills with joyous song, and there with savage wails!
canto046.blogspot.com 855376. Purgatory: Canto XIII -- The Second Cornice: The Envious
Purgatory: Canto XIII - The Second Cornice: The Envious. Tuesday, March 01, 2005. Canto XIII - The Second Cornice: The Whip of Envy. And a moment later he's discovered the purpose for it. Eyes wired shut, these penitent would find no value in movies. Take special note of the catechism section in the activities - I plugged all seven of the capital sins into the online catechism, and the only one of the seven that had its separate and exclusive list was envy. Now, why is that one wonders . . ?
canto047.blogspot.com 855377. Purgatory: Canto XV -- The Middle Cantos
Purgatory: Canto XV - The Middle Cantos. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Purgatory: Canto XV - Love - it's a burning thing. Welcome to the first of the three most important cantos in the entire Comedy. Which is more than just my opinion). These three cantos stress the ideal of love, and they are situated right in the center of the comedy, numbering 49, 50, and 51. Like canto 19 of La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood @ 6:44 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
canto049.blogspot.com 855378. Purgatory: Canto 19 -- Fifth Cornice: Avaricious...
Purgatory: Canto 19 - Fifth Cornice: Avaricious. Monday, March 07, 2005. Canto XIX - The Ascent to the Fifth Cornice and Dante's Dream. Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted.". The dreams we dream closest to dawn are those that are thought prescient and upon which we might rely to tell us what our future brings. In La Vita Nuova. We ought to prepare ourselves against that day by following Msgr. Griesedieck's advice to "live simply so that others may simply live.".
canto053.blogspot.com 855379. Purgatory: Canto 21 -- Praise of Virgil
Purgatory: Canto 21 - Praise of Virgil. Sunday, March 06, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 21, The Fifth Cornice - Statius. For those who haven't read the Thebiad. Which was enough, it seems, to have provided for Statius's salvation in his having read it, but not enough to provide for Virgil's in his having written it. After the introductions have been made and Statius has explained more of the nature of the mountain, he adds that he was one of the "more than a thousand poets" kindled by the flame of the Aeneid.
canto055.blogspot.com 855380. Purgatory: Canto 22-- Sixth Cornice: The Gluttonous
Purgatory: Canto 22- Sixth Cornice: The Gluttonous. Thursday, March 10, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 22 - The Sixth Cornice, The Whip of the Gluttons. Blessed are those who thirst after righteousness.". As for the progress of the soul, let's invest a moment learning from Statius. Statius says that Virgil saved him twice - both of which kept him out of the 4th circle of hell where the hoarders and wasters crash rocks against one another. In the first case, he read the lines of Virgil's Aeneid. Every artistic en...
canto056.blogspot.com 855381. Purgatory: Canto 25 -- Seventh Cornice: The Soul's Progress
Purgatory: Canto 25 - Seventh Cornice: The Soul's Progress. Sunday, March 13, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 25, The Ascent to the Seventh Circle. Ended the 1,400-year reign of Galen's anatomy. In 1628 with the publication of De motu cordis. In this, Dante and Pope have found common purpose of expression, for Pope begins his fourth epistle in exhortation:. Take Nature's path, and mad opinions leave;. All states can reach it, and all heads conceive;. Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell;. Posted by Sebasti...
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canto06.skyrock.com 855383. Purgatory: Canto 26 -- Sodomites
Purgatory: Canto 26 - Sodomites. Sunday, March 06, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 26, The Lustful Sodomites. Having spent the whole day in service to my son. Dante's La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood @ 10:58 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto 26, The Lustful Sodomites.
canto060.blogspot.com 855384. Purgatory: Canto 28 -- The River Lethe
Purgatory: Canto 28 - The River Lethe. Wednesday, March 16, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 28 - The Earthly Paradise: The River Lethe. Matilda, as a representative of the active life, is meant to prepare us for the contemplative life, just as Lethe, which is the river of sin's forgetfulness, is meant to prepare us for Eunoe, which is the river of good's memory. While Dante expresses no desire for this woman in the garden beyond knowing of her and her state, he berates himself in his Vita Nuova.
canto062.blogspot.com 855385. Purgatory: Canto 29 -- Triumph of the Church
Purgatory: Canto 29 - Triumph of the Church. Thursday, March 17, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 29 - The Heavenly Pageant. If MacAllister is right and the Purgatorio. Dante's waltz with Matilda parallels his discernment over the woman with the compassionate eyes, the one who engages him with her look, and he decides she must be gracious and that a love might be found. He writes of her in Canto 38 of La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 7:58 PM. Purgatory: Canto 29 - The Heavenly Pageant.
canto063.blogspot.com 855386. Purgatory: Canto 31 -- The Confession of Dante
Purgatory: Canto 31 - The Confession of Dante. Saturday, March 19, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 31 - Lethe - Beatrice and Matilda. Well, my audience was probably wondering whether, like Virgil, I'd disappeared from this board after being lost in the piney woods of East Texas. I would like to announce first that my family and I have arrived safely at my uncle's house and that the postings will continue as though uninterrupted by my travels. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 8:03 PM. View my complete profile.
canto065.blogspot.com 855387. Purgatory: Canto 32 -- The Tree of Knowledge
Purgatory: Canto 32 - The Tree of Knowledge. Sunday, March 20, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 32 - Beatrice Unveiled. Palm Sunday - the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem, hailed as its king and liberator! The heavenly pageant, both Dante and Statius (who has also crossed Lethe) notice, heads East into the risen sun and the allegory of the corruption of the Church through the wealth it has accumulated since the alleged Donation of Constantine is played out on the spot where Dante stands. But he does so ou...
canto066.blogspot.com 855388. Heaven: Canto 2 -- The First Heaven: The Moon
Heaven: Canto 2 - The First Heaven: The Moon. Saturday, March 27, 2004. The First Sphere - the Man on the Moon. Having proven himself a chemist in his understanding of the principles by which helium works on air in the previous canto, Dante now proves himself an astronomer in his explanation of how the moon is marked - while he was right in the Convivio. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:00 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. The First Sphere - the Man on the Moon.
canto069.blogspot.com 855389. Heaven: Canto 3 -Piccarda Donati & Emps. Constance
Heaven: Canto 3 -Piccarda Donati and Emps. Constance. Monday, March 28, 2005. Paradiso: The First Sphere, The Moon. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:00 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The First Sphere, The Moon.
canto070.blogspot.com 855390. Heaven: Canto 6 -- Second Heaven: Mercury
Heaven: Canto 6 - Second Heaven: Mercury. Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Paradiso: The Second Sphere, Mercury - Seekers of Honor. Ciardi notes that in Canto VI of the Inferno. Dante summarizes the condition of Florence; in Canto VI of the Purgatorio. The state of Italy; and in Canto VI of the Paradiso. The chief problem of this canto lies in the justice of the Jews upon whom the Roman eagle wrecked a just vengeance, and this is something about which Dante will ask Beatrice in the canto that follows.
canto073.blogspot.com 855391. Heaven: Canto 8 -- Ascent to the Third Heaven
Heaven: Canto 8 - Ascent to the Third Heaven. Sunday, April 03, 2005. Paradiso: The Third Sphere, Venus and the Amorous. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 11:17 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The Third Sphere, Venus and the Amorous.
canto075.blogspot.com 855392. Heaven: Canto 10 -- The Fourth Heaven: The Sun
Heaven: Canto 10 - The Fourth Heaven: The Sun. Tuesday, April 05, 2005. Paradiso: Canto X, Doctors of the Church. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:41 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: Canto X, Doctors of the Church.
canto077.blogspot.com 855393. Heaven: Canto 12 -- St. Buonaventura
Heaven: Canto 12 - St. Buonaventura. Thursday, April 07, 2005. Paradiso: Canto XII, The Second Garland of Souls. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 11:02 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: Canto XII, The Second Garland of Souls.
canto079.blogspot.com 855394. Inferno: Canto 9 -- Circle 6
Inferno: Canto 9 - Circle 6. Friday, September 24, 2004. Inferno: Canto 9 - Circle 6. We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll. Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll. Say you don't know me, or recognize my face. Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place. Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight. Too many runaways eating up the night" - Starship. Virgil sends up a prayer, and it is answered in this canto as an angel scatters the sinners and throws open the gate.
canto08.blogspot.com 855395. Heaven: Canto 13 -- The Double Garland
Heaven: Canto 13 - The Double Garland. Friday, April 08, 2005. Paradiso: Canto XIII - The Intellect of the Faith in the Sun. Nonetheless, there is still something for Aquinas to say to resolve Dante's remaining question for these souls - for if none were ever born that matched Solomon's gifts, then what of the first and second Adams (not Henjums)? Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 6:56 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: Canto XIII - The Intellect of the Faith.
canto080.blogspot.com 855396. Heaven: Canto 15 -- Cacciaguida
Heaven: Canto 15 - Cacciaguida. Sunday, April 10, 2005. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere, Warriors of God. Para 22) is correct, to hell that which we don't understand. It would be unkind to record that had he been a better fighter, he would not have been martyred on the field, and his present joy comes from that's having occurred, but not until after he had sired Dante's father's grandfather, whom we also learn is still circling the cornice of the proud - presumedly for cherishing the new patronym too loud.
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Heaven: Canto 16 - Dante's Noble Ancestry. Monday, April 11, 2005. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere - Cacciaguida's Dialogue. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 9:59 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere - Cacciaguidas Dialog.
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Heaven: Canto 17 - Cacciaguida's Prophecy. Tuesday, April 12, 2005. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere, Cacciaguida Explains Dante's Banishment. What Caccagiuda provides him, though, is something very important to his focus in the Comedy. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 8:00 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The Fifth Sphere, Cacciaguida Explains D.
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