ITAL 310: Dante in Translation
Lecture 07 - Inferno XIX, XXI, XXV, XXVI. This lecture deals primarily with Cantos XIX and XXVI of Inferno. Simony, the sin punished in Inferno XIX, is situated historically to point out the contiguity of the sacred and the profane and its relevance to the prophetic voice Dante established in this canto. The fine line between prophecy and profanation is shown to resurface in Inferno XXIV and XXV, where the poet falls prey, as did the pilgrim in Inferno IV, to poetic hubris. Once again, the dangers of Dante's poetic vocation are dramatized in the canto that immediately follows. In Inferno XXVI, Dante's tragic revision of the journey of Ulysses is shown to offset his own poetic enterprise, while acknowledging its risks. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 07 - Inferno XIX, XXI, XXV, XXVI |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Returning to Canto XV and Brunetto Latini |
| [00:06:58] | 2. The Prophetic Voice and the Writer of Epistles |
| [00:12:12] | 3. Canto XIX: Simony, Sacrilege and the Sacred |
| [00:32:24] | 4. Short Remarks about Comedy and the Fall |
| [00:33:56] | 5. Canto XV: Reenacting the Aesthetic Temptation |
| [00:38:50] | 6. Canto XXVI: Ulysses as a Mode of Being for Dante |
| [01:02:31] | 7. Question and Answer |
| References |
| Lecture 7 - Inferno XIX, XXI, XXV, XXVI Instructor: Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta. Visual Resources - Lecture 7 [HTML]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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