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  1. Sep 15, 2022 · This chapter examines representations of gluttony in Dante's early lyric poetry and in his philosophical treatise Convivio. While the early poetry begins to play with the value systems food can express and reinforce, the treatise-as-banquet is where food's many layers of significance become apparent.

  2. Dante deploys his language with extraordinary analytic precision: as he says in verses 74-75, the vices are the sparks—“faville”—that inflame humans and cause them to act sinfully. In Dante’s metaphor, the vices are the sparks that lead to the fire, while the sins are the flames themselves.

  3. Jun 5, 2018 · Of the mythical King Midas he says: “And now forever all men fight for air laughing at him.” There has never been a more artful master of the insult.

  4. While one might be tempted to think less of Dante for his part in this petty fight, looked at differently Dante’s behavior is probably better understood as righteous anger, not so much at the sinner as the sin – but even here, Dante has a ways to go.

  5. May 6, 2011 · In XXXI, at the very top of Purgatory, Dante is dipped into the River Lethe, which will cause amnesia. The chant of Asperges me [purge me] accompanies his immersion, and he then forgets his past sins and his atonement for them is complete. (Even the memory of sin is apparently too polluted for the purified soul.)

  6. Sep 9, 2021 · There are three beasts that block Dante’s path at the beginning, Dante has three guides on his journey. Things happen in threes. Dante makes important statements about his ideas on politics in ...

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  8. Nov 17, 2023 · Similarly, St. Anthony preaches to fish in the sea, expounding on God's gifts. In addition, St. Anthony details various callings fish have met, including “preserve[ing] Jonah the prophet… offer[ing] the tribute money to Christ… [and being] the food of the eternal King, Christ Jesus before the resurrection and after” (71).

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