![]() One famous example of Dante’s expression of the deterministic position with respect to love is the late sonnet Io sono stato con Amore insieme, written circa 1306. ![]() This view is the default view of the lyric tradition that Dante embraced in his youth, and it is a view that he himself expressed. Love is not an irresistible force that removes our free will, as love poets have claimed since time immemorial: think of Vergil’s Eclogue 10 with its “omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori” (love conquers all things, and we too succumb to love). He not only evokes his lyric origins, but makes clear once more - as he already had in Inferno 5 - that the lyric tradition is ethically challenged in one absolutely fundamental tenet. Purgatorio 18 is a very important canto, particularly to those readers who cherish Dante’s origins as a lyric poet, which Dante-poet here evokes in loving detail.
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