March 19

Dante

Read one Canto aloud each day.

Bring the Purgatorio & Paradiso

(Finish the work.)

1. How are we to measure the most signifiicant changes that Dante is undergoing as he climbs the mount?

2. Pay special attention to the way Dante, as poet and pilgrim, concludes Purgatorio and prepares for Paradiso. 

3. Why does Virgil leave the journey?

4. What do you make of Dante's "confession" experience with Beatrice?

5. How do we know Dante is nearly ready to enter paradise?

6. Bring to class an image of your personal view of heaven. (example)

7. What does use of light reveal about conversion?

8. Does our will ever end?

1. If power is the end, where is its locus?

2. What are the rules of power?

3. How does Machiavelli view Fortune?

4. Where would Dante place Machiavelli in the Divine Comedy? Where would he place the ideal Machiavellian prince?

5. What would Boethius say to Machiavelli about this work?

6. Is it possible to be good and be a good prince?

7. According to Machiavelli, a prince should be double minded. How so?

8. To be Machiavellian is to be: _____?

9. According to Machiavelli, where did Jesus go wrong?