ITAL 310: Dante in Translation
Lecture 09 - Inferno XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV. The final cantos of Inferno are read with a view to the role of the tragic within Dante's Comedy. Using Dante's discussion of tragedy in the De vulgari eloquentia as a point of departure, Professor Mazzotta traces the disintegration of language that accompanies the pilgrim's descent into the pit of Hell, the zone of treachery, from the distorted speech of Nimrod in Inferno XXXI to the silence of Satan in Inferno XXXIV. The ultimate triumph of comedy over tragedy is dramatized by the pilgrim's ascent, by means of Lucifer, onto the shores of Mount Purgatory. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 09 - Inferno XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. The Mode of the Tragic |
| [00:05:19] | 2. "De vulgari eloquentia" |
| [00:19:45] | 3. Canto XXX: Juno, Myrrha, Sinon |
| [00:22:47] | 4. Canto XXXI: The Giants; Theory of Perspective |
| [00:35:10] | 5. Canto XXXII: More on the Question of Perspective; Tragic Representation |
| [00:59:27] | 6. Canto XXXIV: Satan |
| [01:01:03] | 7. Canto XXXIII: Inventing the Poetic Myth of Purgatory |
| [01:03:46] | 8. Question and Answer |
| References |
| Lecture 9 - Inferno XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV Instructor: Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta. Lecture 09 - Texts [PDF]. Visual Resources - Lecture 9 [HTML]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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