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Purgatory: Canto 26 -- Sodomites
Purgatory: Canto 26 - Sodomites. Sunday, March 06, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 26, The Lustful Sodomites. Having spent the whole day in service to my son. Dante's La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood @ 10:58 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto 26, The Lustful Sodomites.
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Purgatory: Canto 28 -- The River Lethe
Purgatory: Canto 28 - The River Lethe. Wednesday, March 16, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 28 - The Earthly Paradise: The River Lethe. Matilda, as a representative of the active life, is meant to prepare us for the contemplative life, just as Lethe, which is the river of sin's forgetfulness, is meant to prepare us for Eunoe, which is the river of good's memory. While Dante expresses no desire for this woman in the garden beyond knowing of her and her state, he berates himself in his Vita Nuova.
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Purgatory: Canto 29 -- Triumph of the Church
Purgatory: Canto 29 - Triumph of the Church. Thursday, March 17, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 29 - The Heavenly Pageant. If MacAllister is right and the Purgatorio. Dante's waltz with Matilda parallels his discernment over the woman with the compassionate eyes, the one who engages him with her look, and he decides she must be gracious and that a love might be found. He writes of her in Canto 38 of La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 7:58 PM. Purgatory: Canto 29 - The Heavenly Pageant.
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Purgatory: Canto 31 -- The Confession of Dante
Purgatory: Canto 31 - The Confession of Dante. Saturday, March 19, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 31 - Lethe - Beatrice and Matilda. Well, my audience was probably wondering whether, like Virgil, I'd disappeared from this board after being lost in the piney woods of East Texas. I would like to announce first that my family and I have arrived safely at my uncle's house and that the postings will continue as though uninterrupted by my travels. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 8:03 PM. View my complete profile.
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Purgatory: Canto 32 -- The Tree of Knowledge
Purgatory: Canto 32 - The Tree of Knowledge. Sunday, March 20, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 32 - Beatrice Unveiled. Palm Sunday - the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem, hailed as its king and liberator! The heavenly pageant, both Dante and Statius (who has also crossed Lethe) notice, heads East into the risen sun and the allegory of the corruption of the Church through the wealth it has accumulated since the alleged Donation of Constantine is played out on the spot where Dante stands. But he does so ou...
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Heaven: Canto 2 -- The First Heaven: The Moon
Heaven: Canto 2 - The First Heaven: The Moon. Saturday, March 27, 2004. The First Sphere - the Man on the Moon. Having proven himself a chemist in his understanding of the principles by which helium works on air in the previous canto, Dante now proves himself an astronomer in his explanation of how the moon is marked - while he was right in the Convivio. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:00 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. The First Sphere - the Man on the Moon.
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Heaven: Canto 3 -Piccarda Donati & Emps. Constance
Heaven: Canto 3 -Piccarda Donati and Emps. Constance. Monday, March 28, 2005. Paradiso: The First Sphere, The Moon. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:00 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The First Sphere, The Moon.
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Heaven: Canto 6 -- Second Heaven: Mercury
Heaven: Canto 6 - Second Heaven: Mercury. Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Paradiso: The Second Sphere, Mercury - Seekers of Honor. Ciardi notes that in Canto VI of the Inferno. Dante summarizes the condition of Florence; in Canto VI of the Purgatorio. The state of Italy; and in Canto VI of the Paradiso. The chief problem of this canto lies in the justice of the Jews upon whom the Roman eagle wrecked a just vengeance, and this is something about which Dante will ask Beatrice in the canto that follows.
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Heaven: Canto 8 -- Ascent to the Third Heaven
Heaven: Canto 8 - Ascent to the Third Heaven. Sunday, April 03, 2005. Paradiso: The Third Sphere, Venus and the Amorous. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 11:17 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: The Third Sphere, Venus and the Amorous.
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Heaven: Canto 10 -- The Fourth Heaven: The Sun
Heaven: Canto 10 - The Fourth Heaven: The Sun. Tuesday, April 05, 2005. Paradiso: Canto X, Doctors of the Church. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 12:41 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: Canto X, Doctors of the Church.
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Heaven: Canto 12 -- St. Buonaventura
Heaven: Canto 12 - St. Buonaventura. Thursday, April 07, 2005. Paradiso: Canto XII, The Second Garland of Souls. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood at 11:02 PM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Paradiso: Canto XII, The Second Garland of Souls.
