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Inferno V

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Lecturae Dantis 2012 - Inferno

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Dante Alighieri: La Divina Commedia

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Robert Rauschenberg

Joseph Luzzi

Brunetto Latini

Simon Hewitt

Tasia Scrutton

Guy Raffa

George Corbett

Mark Davis

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In this episode, Matthew Treherne discusses one of the most famous moments in Dante's Inferno, when Dante meets Francesca da Rimini, among the souls of the lustful. 

In this episode, Matthew Treherne discusses one of the most famous moments in Dante's Inferno, when Dante meets Francesca da Rimini, among the souls of the lustful.

Key Moments in the Commedia: Inferno V, 121-38

Gian Luigi Beccaria, Inferno V.Decima Lectura Dantis del ciclo promosso dall'Istituto di studi italiani (ISI) dell'USI nell'anno accademico 2012-2013.28 novembre 2012.

Gian Luigi Beccaria, Inferno V. Decima Lectura Dantis del ciclo promosso dall'Istituto di studi italiani (ISI) dell'USI nell'anno accademico 2012-2013. 28 novembre 2012.

Inferno V (Prof. Gian Luigi Beccaria)

This lecture examines Inferno 4 -7.  Dante’s Limbo, modeled on the classical locus amoenus, is identified as a place of repose and vulnerability.  Here, in fact, among the poets of antiquity, the pilgrim falls prey to poetic hubris by joining in their ranks.  The pilgrim is faced with the consequences of his poetic vocation when he descends to the circle of lust (Inferno 5), where Francesca da Rimini, in her failure to distinguish romance from reality, testifies to the dangers inherent to the act of reading.  From the destructive power of lust within the private world of the court, Dante moves on to the effects of its sister sin, gluttony, on the public sphere of the city.  The relationship posited in Inferno 6 between Ciacco and his native Florence is read as a critique of the “body politic.”  In conclusion, Virgil’s discourse on Fortune in the circle of avarice and prodigality (Inferno 7) is situated within the Christian world of divine providence.

04 - Inferno V, VI, VII