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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...set for it. Thus it is right to arm myself with foresight that if I lose the place most dear, I may not lose..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...set for it. Thus it is right to arm myself with foresight that if I lose the place most dear, I may not lose..."
In the quoted passage Dante says he must arm himself with foresight so that telling the truth about what he saw does not cost him everything else, even though his account will taste too harsh to many readers.
"...set for it. Thus it is right to arm myself with foresight that if I lose the place most dear, I may not lose..."
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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