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7. “‘Philosophy, for one who understands, / points out, and not in just one place… / how nature follows—as she takes her course-- / the Divine Intellect and Divine Art.’”
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Virgil
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6. “‘Because you want to fathom things so deeply, / I now shall tell you promptly… / why I am not afraid to enter here. / One ought to be afraid of nothing other / than things possessed of power to do us harm, / but things innocuous need not be feared.’”
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Beatrice
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5. “‘Brothers,’ I said, ‘o you, who having crossed / a hundred thousand dangers, reach the west, / to this brief waking-time that still is left / unto your senses, you must not deny / experience of that which lies beyond / the sun, and of the world that is unpeopled. / Consider well the seed that gave you birth: / you were not made to live your lives as brutes, / but to be followers of worth and knowledge.’”
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Ulysses
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“‘Are you already standing, / already standing there, o Boniface?’”
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Pope Nicholas III
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3. “‘Within my memory is fixed—and now / moves me—your dear, your kind paternal image / when, in the world above, from time to time / you taught me how man makes himself eternal.’”
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Brunetto Latini
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“‘Love, that can quickly seize the gentle heart, / took hold of him because of the fair body / taken from me—how that was done still wounds me. / Love, that releases no beloved from loving, / took hold of me so strongly through his beauty / that, as you see, it has not left me yet.’”
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Francesca
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“‘…Not man; I once was man. / Both of my parents came from Lombardy, / and both claimed Mantua as native city. / And I was born, though late, sub Julio, / and lived in Rome under the good Augustus--/ the season of the false and lying gods.’”
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Virgel
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“‘My son, there’s no Creator and no creature / who ever was without love—natural / or mental; and you know that…’”
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Virgil
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“‘Thus, if the present world has gone astray, / in you is the cause, in you it’s to be sought; / and now I’ll serve as your true exegete.’”
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Marco Lombardo
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Within Dante the pilgrim’s dream of transport (Canto IX), the figure of ________ is evoked as a comparison to the pilgrim’s plight within his dream:
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Ganymede
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“I saw a solitary patriarch / near me—his aspect worthy of such reverence / that even son to father owes no more. / His beard was long and mixed with white, as were / the hairs upon his head… The rays of the four holy stars so framed / his face with light that in my sight he seemed / like one who is confronted by the sun.”
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Cato
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. In order to ascend into Purgatory proper in Canto IX, the pilgrim must walk up three steps. The respective colors of these three steps, in order, are: 1)____________; 2)____________; 3)____________. The steps appear symbolically to represent the Christian Sacrament of_______________.
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White, Black (Dark Purple), Red.
Penance/Reconciliation |
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“‘… for where I asserted this-- / that prayers could not mend their fault—I spoke / of prayers without passageways to God. / But in a quandary so deep, do not / conclude with me, but wait for word that she, / the light between your mind and truth, will speak—’”
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Virgil The She is beatrice
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In Canto IX, Dante in “reality” is carried up to the brink of Purgatory proper by whom?____________________.
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St Lucy
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