The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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Page 63
... Ancient Wood , the selva antica of Purgatorio 28.23 , in which Vergil returns to his place in Limbo . In his idea of purgation Dante is at one with the ancients on the problem of instinct , the fact that we are given at birth or before ...
... Ancient Wood , the selva antica of Purgatorio 28.23 , in which Vergil returns to his place in Limbo . In his idea of purgation Dante is at one with the ancients on the problem of instinct , the fact that we are given at birth or before ...
Page 101
... ancient tradition and took it into areas of human experience that the ancients themselves could have scarcely ... ancient simply because it is ancient : there is , remarkably enough , no confusion in his mind between the old and the ...
... ancient tradition and took it into areas of human experience that the ancients themselves could have scarcely ... ancient simply because it is ancient : there is , remarkably enough , no confusion in his mind between the old and the ...
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... ancient Rome . What comes to mind as an example of ancient building in the Commedia is sig- nificantly a moldering burial ground , the ancient cemetery at Arles to which Dante compares the physical layout of the circle of the heretics ...
... ancient Rome . What comes to mind as an example of ancient building in the Commedia is sig- nificantly a moldering burial ground , the ancient cemetery at Arles to which Dante compares the physical layout of the circle of the heretics ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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