Educating Desire: Conversion and Ascent in Dante’s <i>Purgatorio</i>
In Cantos 17 and 18 of the <i>Purgatorio</i>, Dante’s Virgil lays out a theory of sin, freedom, and moral motivation based on a philosophical anthropology of loving-desire. As the commentary tradition has long recognized, because Dante placed Virgil’s discourse on lov...
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MDPI AG
2019-05-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/5/305 |