|
|
Article: Dante: Purgatorio: Cantos 12 - 23
- Article from:
- Monarch Notes
- Author:
CopyrightProvided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
Dante
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Purgatorio: Cantos 12 - 23
Canto 12:
Dante has been walking bent over while listening to Oderisi, and now
Virgil bids him to walk faster. He therefore straightens himself, but is
still, he says, bowed down in heart. Virgil then calls his attention to the
pavement on which are carved numerous examples of the proud fallen low,
beginning with Lucifer, the fallen angel, and ending with a picture of Troy in
ashes and ruins. Again Dante comments on the amazing life - like quality of
the work. At last the poets reach the angel of humility who, with a stroke of
his wings, erases the first P on Dante's brow. As Dante and Virgil are about
to mount the steps leading to the ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary ...
The Modern Language Review;
January 1, 2006 ;
700+ words
...Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife ... 662-9. This is the sixth collection of Dante studies brought out by the UCD Foundation ... gathering nine papers on miscellaneous aspects of Dante's reception in Italy, England, and Spain ...
|
|