Concept
Canto
Overview
division of a long poem
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Canto XXVIII. The Ninth Bolgia: Schismatics. Mahomet and Ali. Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born. Canto XXIX. Geri del Bello. The Tenth Bolgia: Alchemists. Griffolino d’ Arezzo and Capocchino. Canto XXX. Other Falsifiers or Forgers. Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Potiphar’s Wife, and Sinon of Troy. Canto XXXI. The Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus. Descent to Cocytus. Canto XXXII.
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell
Names Canto several times; the author is tied to Canto in the knowledge graph.
xi. 48 and Euripides, Electra, 369. v. 122. To Charles.] “Al Nasuto.” -“Charles II King of Naples, is no less inferior to his father Charles I. than James and Frederick to theirs, Peter III.” v. 127. Costanza.] Widow of Peter III She has been already mentioned in the third Canto, v. 112. By Beatrice and Margaret are probably meant two of the daughters of Raymond Berenger, Count of Provence; the former married to St…
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete
The chapter “CANTO VII” is titled for Canto; the author is tied to Canto in the knowledge graph.
These rules of composition make prose approach to the regularity of poetry, when combined with my previous reduction of the maximum length of a sentence to two manuscript or five printed lines, that is, 250 letters." "Normally constructed, great poems consist of thirteen cantos, decomposed into parts, sections, and groups like my chapters, saving the complete equality of the groups and of the sections." "This…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
Names Canto twice.
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of Transhumanism.