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He says Dante's prophecy in Canto 17 will sharply contrast with the triumphant Aeneid pattern, shifting from glory to whatever awaits Dante after he leaves heaven and returns to the real world.
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Canto 17
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In the quoted passage, Dante asks his ancestor to tell him plainly what fortune approaches, describing earlier warnings as grievous but saying foreknowledge lets the arrow land more gently.
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"Troy was destroyed for a reason. To found Rome. Aeneas had to go on this long, painful journey in order to build the foundation..."
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"But in Dante's prophecy, it's completely different. Okay? So this is Canto 17. And we're going to read Dante's grandfather telling him what lies..."
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"Like Phaethon, one who still makes fathers wary of sons, when he had heard insinuations, and he, to be assured, came to Clemene, such..."
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"heals souls and when descending to the dead world, what I heard about my future life were grievous words. Although against the blows of..."
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"...more questions before we move on? Okay, so let's go to Canto 17. Okay. And we also don't have time to read Canto 17,..."
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"...Two years from now, okay? And that is the setting for Canto 17, which we'll read after the break."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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