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... poet , are a result of the poet's wish to disassociate Virgil , and therefore his writings , from the very concept of divination that is punished in this bolgia . 16 In this way , we can see that the poet transforms the words of ...
... poet , are a result of the poet's wish to disassociate Virgil , and therefore his writings , from the very concept of divination that is punished in this bolgia . 16 In this way , we can see that the poet transforms the words of ...
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... poet's text to save men . The poet uses the canto of the diviners , who employ " unholy " means to prophesy the future , in order to demonstrate the pattern which good , holy prophecy must take . It is a demonstration of how to read and ...
... poet's text to save men . The poet uses the canto of the diviners , who employ " unholy " means to prophesy the future , in order to demonstrate the pattern which good , holy prophecy must take . It is a demonstration of how to read and ...
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... poet does literally when he rewrites a text into the Commedia . The poet's attempt then is to open his text ( and other texts through his own ) to a correct reading . Perhaps the clue to the poet's motives for attempting to link ...
... poet does literally when he rewrites a text into the Commedia . The poet's attempt then is to open his text ( and other texts through his own ) to a correct reading . Perhaps the clue to the poet's motives for attempting to link ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Misreadings in Inferno XX and Purgatorio XXI | 14 |
History to Narrative | 31 |
Copyright | |
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