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Ep. 136: Eat Your Heart Out

Young Heretics

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The New Sweet Style in Italian Poetry

Dante is associated in many ways with what is called the new sweet style. He takes this erotic longing and sublimates it, although that's kind of an anachronism. And yet he is going to transcend it or leave it behind,. In Fereno, he's going to put some of these poets in Hell, some of them in Purgatory. The God of love is going to overwhelm his fullness at the appearance of Beeth Street Beatrice.

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