ITAL 310: Dante in Translation
Lecture 22 - Paradise XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX. This lecture focuses on Paradise XXVII-XXIX. St. Peter's invective against the papacy from the Heaven of the Fixed Stars is juxtaposed with Dante's portrayal of its contemporary incumbent, Boniface VIII, in the corresponding canto of Inferno. Recalls of infernal characters proliferate as the pilgrim ascends with Beatrice into the primum mobile. Bid to look back on the world below, Dante perceives the mad track of his uneasy archetype, Ulysses. Dante's remembrance of this tragic shipwreck at the very boundary of time and space gains interest in light of his allusion to Francesca at the outset of Paradise XXIX. These resonances of intellectual and erotic transgression reinforce the convergence of cosmology and creation Dante assigns to the heaven of metaphysics. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 22 - Paradise XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Canto XXVII: St. Peter and the Boundary of the Material Universe |
| [00:20:12] | 2. Canto XXVIII: The Order of Angels |
| [00:24:04] | 3. Shift to the Order of Creation in Canto XXIX |
| [00:37:43] | 4. Question and Answer on Creation, Incarnation |
| [01:00:56] | 5. Question and Answer on Sexual Language, Theological Risk |
| References |
| Lecture 22 - Paradise XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX Instructor: Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta. Visual Resources - Lecture 22 [HTML]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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