Virgil's free-will model: humans can resist or deny bad love even if desire first arises naturally.
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power to curb love
Virgil's free-will model: humans can resist or deny bad love even if desire first arises naturally.
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"now that all other longings may conform to this first will there is in you inborn the power that counsels people of the threshold..."
"we can resist we can say no we can deny our love there's no more power is what Beatrice means by free will therefore..."
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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