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Canto 19 and 20

Canto 19 and 20. Kiegan Rice and Palak Patel. 19 Literal. Third Pouch of 8 th Circle of Hell Simony Buying/Selling Pardons or Church Offices Punishment Souls stuck headfirst in pits, only legs out Flames touch at their feet Pope Nicholas III Thinks Dante is Pope Bontiface.

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Canto 19 and 20

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  1. Canto 19 and 20 Kiegan Rice and Palak Patel

  2. 19 Literal • Third Pouch of 8th Circle of Hell • Simony • Buying/Selling Pardons or Church Offices • Punishment • Souls stuck headfirst in pits, only legs out • Flames touch at their feet • Pope Nicholas III • Thinks Dante is Pope Bontiface

  3. 19 Literal (cont.) • Pope Nicholas III claims that worse than him still live on Earth • Dante – Reference to St. Peter • Didn’t buy key to Heaven and Earth • Virgil agrees with Dante, helps him to fourth pit

  4. 19 Allegorical • Shows that sale of holy things is not yet a thing of the past, including arranged marriages (technically sale) • He saw his marriage as a political marriage, wanted to marry Beatrice • Still feels sympathetic towards sinner, confused as to what is going on in his journey through hell • Less sympathetic as book goes along, accepts divine justice

  5. 19 Moral • Criticism of the Catholic Church • Pope Nicholas, Simon Magus (sorcerer) • Represented spiritual services for money • Indulgences - Reformation • Like worshipping a false idol

  6. 19 Anagogical • Upside-down people • Subordinated the heavenly to the Earthly • Simon Magus – Talked against before reach Simony circle, Simony is named after him

  7. 20 Literal • Fourth Pouch of 8th Circle of Hell • Punishment, endless walking • Sees…OMG…backwards heads!! • pity • Astrologers, Diviners, Magicians • Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto • Virgil tells about the founding of Mantua

  8. 20 Allegorical • The Divine Comedy, as it goes deeper into hell and harsher punishments, now has less emphasis on Dante’s character and more on moral judgment of others • Dante- sympathy and uncertainty, goal: moral clarity • Virgil- rationality and straightforward, goal: lead Dante

  9. 20 Moral • Used trickery instead of actual magic • Didn’t like astrologers • Virgil had absolutely no sympathy for them either

  10. 20 Anagogical • Must look backwards because they tried to look forward into the future during life • Deformation of Education = Magic • Virgil’s Reason vs. Magic • Possibly represents Dante’s view of Reason vs. Power

  11. 19 & 20 Poetic • 19 – Dante’s speech about simony – 6 lines – Devil?! • “Here pity or here piety, must die if the other lives; who’s wickeder than one that’s agonised by God’s high equity” • Double significance, mutually exclusive • (HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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