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Dante's Divine Comedy - Purgatory Cantos V, VI, IX, and X Analysis

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This lecture analyzes Purgatory cantos V, VI, IX, and X, examining freedom, civic conflict in Italy, the transition into Purgatory, and the relationship between art and measurement.

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- Chapter 1. Tension between the Old and the New: Moral Purification
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- Chapter 2. Canto V: Retrospective Knowledge; Buonconte da Montefeltro; Pia de' Tolomei
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- Chapter 3. Canto VI: The Political Canto
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- Chapter 4. Marking the Rupture in Canto IX
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- Chapter 5. Canto X: The World of Art; The Idea of Measurement
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- Chapter 6. Learning How to Look; More on Measurement
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- Chapter 7. Question and Answer.

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