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Dante's Inferno: Cantos XIX, XXI, XXV, and XXVI - Prophecy, Sacrilege, and Poetic Hubris

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This lecture analyzes Cantos XIX, XXIV–XXVI, and related passages of Dante’s Inferno. It connects simony, prophecy, poetic hubris, and Dante’s revision of Ulysses to the risks of poetic vocation.

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- Chapter 1. Returning to Canto XV and Brunetto Latini
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- Chapter 2. The Prophetic Voice and the Writer of Epistles
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- Chapter 3. Canto XIX: Simony, Sacrilege and the Sacred
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- Chapter 4. Short Remarks about Comedy and the Fall
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- Chapter 5. Canto XV: Reenacting the Aesthetic Temptation
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- Chapter 6. Canto XXVI: Ulysses as a Mode of Being for Dante
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- Chapter 7. Question and Answer
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