February 5

Dante

Read one Canto aloud each day.

1. Why is the bridge broken in the sixth circle of the Malabolgia?

2. What is Dante teaching us about fraud by the architecture of this region?

3. Why is hypocrisy at the cusp of the Malabolgia? What do the sins of fraud above hypocrisy have in common? What about those below?

4. Why is the perfect contrapasso perfect?

5. Why are the three types of sin "concentric"?

1. Why does Augustine focus on time and creation so passionately?
2. We will read from T.S. Eliot's poem Burnt Norton.