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The other soul is Capocchio, Dante's friend in his school days, who was burned for alchemy in 1293. Dante begins Canto XXX with a long metaphorical mythological comparison to describe the rage of the two spirits that come furiously out of the darkness, one of which descends on Capocchio.
A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS – GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY . BOOKS. Davenport, Guy. Cities on Hills: Study 1-30 of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1984. Zukofsky, Louis. Ezra Pound: His Cantos (1-27). New York: Kulchur Press, 1963. DISSERTATIONS. Childs, John. “Modernist Form: Pound’s Style in A Draft of XXX Cantos.” Diss. U of Arkansas, 1983 ...
A summary of Cantos XXX–XXXIII in Dante Alighieri's Inferno. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Inferno and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
CANTO XXX. Interpreted in the widest possible terms, the lyric condemns only Judeo-Christian dualism, which undermines man’s reverence for natural process and causes him to pervert those beneficent and self-regulating operations which Artemis represents.
Dante devotes the first twenty-one lines of canto XXX to two classical examples of madness, one Theban and the other Trojan.
'Only our Arabs,' was the answer; meaning that they were rough country folk, dependent on Pisa. 'Then what is your coin like?' he asked.
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Dante is indeed ready for the end of his journey. Twice in these cantos he shows no pity or sympathy for certain sinners; once, with a furious temper, he attacks one of the frozen spirits, simply for the satisfaction of knowing its name so he can tell his story on Earth.
This section of Discover Dante introduces Inferno. We begin with an overview of Dante's idea of Hell, before working through the text canto by canto, and then considering some of the major themes in the text.
Overview. The final cantos of Inferno are read with a view to the role of the tragic within Dante’s Comedy. Using Dante’s discussion of tragedy in the De vulgari eloquentia as a point of departure, Professor Mazzotta traces the disintegration of language that accompanies the pilgrim’s descent into the pit of Hell, the zone of treachery ...