![]() ![]() the journey of the soul on the path of life, a poetic retelling of Convivio 4.12.Dante’s conditional contrary-to-fact framing of the central ideological premise of his universe and of his poem.are the stars to blame for our lack of virtue or are we? The question of astrological determinism: we return to Cecco d’Ascoli and to the debate about Inferno 7.89 (see the Appendix to the Commento on Inferno 7), also to Dante’s programmatic deflecting of astrology in Inferno 20.from the darkness of hell to angelic light in the space of one canto: a recapitulation of the journey as a whole in the 50 th canto.
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