DanteBlogs Morning Coffee

Morning post: Thomas Aquinas’ definitions of Superbia as distorted reality and assessement of your own place in Reality.

From Somma Teologica II-II.162.1 “La Superbia – is it a sin?”

Today we’ll look at the last tercets from Cacciaguida in Canto 17 of Paradiso – where he tells the Pilgrim why he should write honestly with famous and reputable people in the Comedy, to have a fuller impact of Virtue, and to give examples people can relate to and might learn from.

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Today we’ll look at the moment where Dante is for the first time directly mentioning the Comedy and his hesitations with writing it all fully and honestly, in Truth and Virtue. As it will be “bitter” reading for many people in his own time. (Starts at 2:15).

He also stretches out the eternal perspective, and hints at how all of temporal and chronological time is already written in the timeless realm of the deeper patterns and Divinity.

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Today we’ll briefly look at some due diligence on NVDA’s finances in the last few quarters, and expectations to the Earnings Report released later today.

We’ll also look at Cacciaguida’s prophecy about Dante’s future and the virtuous impact of his life’s work, and how Dante the Writer in many ways is packing several time eras into “one point” in this canto, blending past, present, future, and current time – all into one experience. (Starts at 4:25).

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Today we’ll look at a “turning point” in the very center/heart of Paradiso, when Dante finds a refuge with the ruling Scala family in Verona, and meets the young prince Cangrande della Scala, who is strongly imprinted with the spirit of Mars: with Virtue, and with Courage. (Starts at 1:20).

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Today we’ll look at how Cacciaguida is telling the Pilgrim about his near future, unfolding from the year 1300. He starts with the first events of the “arrow” of exile, the problematic years in Arezzo, and then finding a safe haven with the Scala family in Verona in 1303.

And this marks exactly the half point in Dante’s Paradiso!

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Another Weekend Bonus episode!
Today we’ll look at the wording of the Pilgrim’s “burning question”/flame to his great great grandfather Cacciaguida: Please tell me, what my future beholds.

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Today we’ll look at the first four tercets in Canto 17 in Paradiso, the very center of the Paradiso. And here we are tip-toeing around a central question for the Pilgrim: what does my future behold?

Beatrice explains that even though she and Cacciaguida already know the question (and answer), he has to articulate it fully himself, as an active part of this process.

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Good afternoon!

In this episode we’ll go through the second half of Canto 16 in Dante’s Paradiso, where Cacciaguida goes through a long list of virtuous families and dynasties in Old Florence, and shows how this era ended with the brutal murder of Buondelmonte de’ Buondelmonti on Easter Day, in 1215/16.

The slaying happened on his Wedding Day at the foot of the Mars Statue (The God of War) by Ponte Vecchio, unleashing a long and bloody civil war in Florence.

Happy Weekend!

Today we’ll look at some highlights from Cacciaguida’s speech about the contrast between old and current Florence for Dante, and how the sudden growth from 6,000 to 30,000 citizens changed the fabric of the culture and society, and in many ways the moral fabric as well.

Enjoy!