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Yale,, Fall 2008 , Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
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Yale,, Fall 2008 , Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
(ITAL 310) The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of The Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande). An analysis of Dante's autobiography, the Vita nuova, establishes the poetic and political circumstances of the Comedy's composition. Readings of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso seek to situate Dante's work within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, with special attention paid to political, philosophical and theological concerns. Topics in The Divine Comedy explored over the course of the semester include the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; love and knowledge; and exile and history.
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Dante in Translation (ITAL 310)
In this lecture, Professor Mazzotta introduces Purgatory and proceeds with a close reading of Cantos I and II. The topography of Mount Purgatory is described, and the moral system it structures is contrasted with that of Hell. Dantes paradoxical choice of Cato, a pagan suicide, as guardian to the entrance of Purgatory ushers in a discussion of freedom from the standpoint of classical antiquity, on the one hand, and Judaism, on the other. In his refusal to be enslaved by the past, both on earth and in the afterlife, Cato is seen to embody the virtues of exile, setting an example for the penitent souls of Ante-purgatory (Purgatory II), including the pilgrim, who still clings to the comforts of the past.
0000 - Chapter 1. Purgatory as an Idea and as a Poetic Construction
0734 - Chapter 2. Canto I A New Departure
1635 - Chapter 3. The Muses Tonality and Orientation
2327 - Chapter 4. Cato
3014 - Chapter 5. Suicide; Purgatory as the Domain of Freedom
4042 - Chapter 6. Canto II Purgatory as the Antipodes of Jerusalem Exodus
4946 - Chapter 7. Internalizing the Narrative; The Exilic Condition; Casella
010029 - Chapter 8. Question and Answer
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpopen.yale.educourses
This course was recorded in Fall 2008.
Sam
Sep 12, 2018
Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.
Dembe
March 29, 2019
Great course. Thank you very much.
