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Dante's Purgatory - Cantos I and II Analysis

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This lecture introduces Purgatory through a close reading of Cantos I and II, examining Mount Purgatory’s moral structure, Cato’s role, freedom, exile, and the pilgrim’s attachment to the past.

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- Chapter 1. Purgatory as an Idea and as a Poetic Construction
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- Chapter 2. Canto I: A New Departure
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- Chapter 3. The Muses: Tonality and Orientation
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- Chapter 4. Cato
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- Chapter 5. Suicide; Purgatory as the Domain of Freedom
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- Chapter 6. Canto II: Purgatory as the Antipodes of Jerusalem: Exodus
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- Chapter 7. Internalizing the Narrative; The Exilic Condition; Casella
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- Chapter 8. Question and Answer
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