11/7/2023 0 Comments Jupiter hell distance explanation![]() You remember, so there is a clear - it’s a clear symmetry between the two cantos. ![]() That’s the way it says, so the canto literally looks backwards and a parallel with - you may have a number of parallels with Inferno XIX where Dante meets, you remember, the popes who are turned upside down and the flames - the kind of - the parody of the Pentecostal fires out on the plants of their feet, but this is more clearly a reference to Canto XXVII of Inferno, where this is the very beginning, this is - there is a hymn Canto XXVII, “Glory be to the Father, the Son, etc.,” and then lines 40 and following we have this great attack, “It was not our meaning,” line 45, “that on the right hand of our successors should sit one part of Christ’s people and the other on the left nor that the keys which were committed to me should become the device on a standard for warfare on the baptized nor that I should be the figure on a seal for sold and lying favours, for which I often redden and flash with fire.” This is the fire of prophecy without a doubt, but it’s also, retrospectively, a reference to the attack against Boniface, who in Canto XXVII of Inferno, is shown as he is in colluding with the Guido da Montefeltro. Peter actually who has been examining him but now after the examination of the three theological virtues he goes on in a prophetic denunciation, he denounces the collusion between his place, he says “my place,” it’s the papacy, the place instituted by - because of him he’s the Peter, he’s the stone, and his successors. Here Dante - you remember what he does, he meets St. There is clearly a parallel between the two cantos. Canto XXVII Dante continues with - in the afterglow of the fixed stars, and the canto just to give you an idea about what formally is happening here, the first part of the canto really looks back formerly at Canto XXVII of Inferno. Where are we first of all in space? We are somewhere in space, Dante has gone past now, the heaven of the fixed stars, with the examination of the three words, the three terms, the foundations of things that we experience as trust, or we experience as existential hope, or a love that if you combine it is always - implies always - not in Canto XXVI but in possibilities of betrayal, uncertainty, so it combines both faith and hope in a very problematical way. There is a very tedious line separating the two of them. I would like to argue that in effect they are not quite the same thing but not really all that distinct. Now we’re going to show all of this as we go over the three cantos. ![]() It’s done in such a way that they are two different things, it would seem, creation and a physical description of the cosmos which we call cosmology and they are because Dante’s dealing with two forms of the universe, a spiritual one and a physical one. A theory of Beatrice that’s explaining the shape of the cosmos, it’s very difficult in these three cantos. Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta: We’re going to look at XXVII, XXVIII and XXIX today of Paradise, three cantos that, really, I think, Dante constructs together and where Dante puts forth this theory of creation and cosmology which are not quite the same thing. Peter and the Boundary of the Material Universe Dante in Translation ITAL 310 - Lecture 22 - Paradise XXVII, XXVIII, XXIXĬhapter 1.
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