ITAL 310: Dante in Translation
Lecture 13 - Purgatory XIX, XXI, XXII. This lecture deals primarily with Purgatory XIX, XXI and XXII. The ambiguity of the imagination discussed in the preceding lecture as the selfsame path to intellectual discovery and disengagement is explored in expressly poetic terms. While the pilgrim's dream of the siren in Purgatory XIX warns of the death-dealing power of aesthetics, the encounter between Statius and Virgil in the cantos that follow points to its life-giving potential by casting poetry as a means of conversion. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 13 - Purgatory XIX, XXI, XXII |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. The Issue of Imagination |
| [00:16:23] | 2. The Dream of Canto XIX; The Two Women |
| [00:40:29] | 3. Cantos XXI and XXII: Statius's Moral Conversion |
| [01:09:30] | 4. Question and Answer |
| References |
| Lecture 13 - Purgatory XIX, XXI, XXII Instructor: Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta. Lecture 13 - Texts [PDF]. Visual Resources - Lecture 13 [HTML]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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