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Page 1 of 6 “Terrace 6: Gluttony” Guy P. Raffa Forese Donati. Cantos “Terrace 6: Gluttony” Guy P. Raffa Forese Donati. Cantos 23.37-117, 24.7-27, 70-97 Forese was a childhood friend of Dante in Florence and a relative of Dante's wife (Gemma Donati). He died in 1296. In their youth Forese and Dante exchanged a series of sonnets (a literary genre known as tenzone), in which they honed their poetic craft by playfully and cleverly insulting one another in the basest terms. Dante, for instance, not so subtly hints at Forese's dissolute ways and his inability to "satisfy" his wife, while Forese implicates Dante's father (and Dante himself) in shady financial dealings. Dante now encounters Forese on the terrace of gluttony, where the emaciated spirits (their eyes sunk so far back into their sockets the face resembles the letter M) suffer excruciating hunger and thirst. In the purgatorial spirit of repentance, Forese (along with Dante) looks back on his wild past with sorrow, and he credits the prayers of his good wife Nella for enabling him to advance so far up the mountain in a relatively short time (less than 5 years since his death). Bonagiunta da Lucca. Canto 24.19-63 Another poet on the terrace of gluttony (thus drawing our attention to the mouth as a conveyor of both words and food), Bonagiunta came from the Tuscan city of Lucca (born c. 1220). He played an important role in the development of Italian lyric poetry, which drew its inspiration from the Provençal poetry of the Troubadours and first flourished in Sicily (at the court of Frederick II) before taking hold on the Italian peninsula. Not held in particularly high regard by Dante as a poet, Bonagiunta mumbles a word-- "Gentucca"-- generally thought to be the name of the woman he prophesies will aid Dante in exile. Bonagiunta also heaps praise on Dante, first by citing the opening to one of Dante's most famous lyric poems (the canzone, included in the Vita Nuova, "Ladies who have understanding of love"), and then by distinguishing Dante's poetry (and perhaps that of a few others) from the poetry of earlier literary leaders and their followers: the "Notary" is Giacomo da Lentini, leader of the Sicilian school of poetry (and presumed inventor of the sonnet form), and "Guittone" is Guittone da Arezzo, a prolific Tuscan writer (he died in Florence in 1294) whose highly stylized, artificial poems were found lacking by Dante. Virgil's "Messianic" Eclogue. Canto 22.64-73 By having Statius credit Virgil's fourth eclogue with his turn to Christianity (22.67-73), Dante follows the medieval tradition of creatively interpreting Source URL: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/08gluttony.html Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/courses/engl409 © Guy P. Raffa Saylor.org Used under academic permission. Page 1 of 6 Page 1 of 6 the Latin poem (written c. 42-39 B.C.E.) as a prophecy of the birth of Jesus. While Virgil likely placed his prophetic hopes on the future child of one of Rome's leading couples (perhaps Antony and Octavia), the poem's theme of messianic renewal, combined with references to a virgin and child, well served the purposes of those, like Dante, who wished to view the great Roman poet as a prophet of Christianity. Now the last age of Cumae's prophecy has come; The great succession of centuries is born afresh. Now too returns the Virgin, Saturn's rule returns; A new begetting now descends from heaven's height. O chaste Lucina, look with blessing on the boy Whose birth will end the iron race at last and raise A golden through the world: now your Apollo rules. And, Pollio, this glory enters time with you; Your consulship begins the march of the great months; With you to guide, if traces of our sin remain, They, nullified, will free the lands from lasting fear. He will receive the life divine, and see the gods Mingling with heroes, and himself be seen of them, And rule a world made peaceful by his father's virtues. (Eclogue 4.4-17) (The Eclogues, trans. Guy Lee [Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, 1984], 57) The appearance of the "messianic" eclogue at this point in the poem is part of a larger cluster of Christ-centered references in and around the presentation of Statius on the fifth terrace. These include biblical allusions to the birth of Jesus (20.136-41; Luke 2:8-14), his encounter with the Samaritan woman (21.1-4; John 4:4-29), the passion and crucifixion (20.73-4, 85-93; Matt. 26:46-9, 27:22-38), and the resurrection (21.7-13; Luke 24:13-36). Not coincidentally, the name Christ (Cristo) appears for the very first time in the Divine Comedy in this episode (20.87). Examples of Temperance and Gluttony. Cantos 22.142-54, 24.121-6 Two remarkable trees rise up from different locations on the sixth terrace to excite desire in the spirits for food and drink only to frustrate this craving, for the souls here expiate the sin of gluttony. From the branches and leaves of each tree resounds an anonymous voice summarizing famous examples of temperance, in one case, and exemplary instances of gluttony, in the other. Source URL: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/08gluttony.html Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/courses/engl409 © Guy P. Raffa Saylor.org Used under academic permission. Page 2 of 6 Page 2 of 6 Dante once again refers to the biblical scene of the wedding feast at Cana (John 2:1-5), in which Mary tells her son Jesus "they have no wine" (see "Examples of Love"), this time to underscore Mary's concern not for herself but for the welfare of the guests (22.142-4). The second example, praising the Roman women for being satisfied with water (22.145-6), is likely based on the claim of Thomas Aquinas, quoting Valerius Maximus, that "among the ancient Romans women drank no wine" (Summa Theologiae 2a2ae.149.4). Valerius says such abstemious behavior kept them from inadvertently doing something shameful (Factorum et dictorum memorabilium 2.1.5). Daniel, who was granted understanding of visions and dreams as well as "knowledge and understanding in every book and wisdom" (Daniel 1:17), serves as the next example of virtuous self-control (22.146-7). Taken from Jerusalem to Babylon, Daniel grows stronger and wiser when he abstains from the king's meat and wine (Daniel 1:8-20). Also admired for their temperance are those who lived in the Golden Age (22.148-50)--a mythical time of social harmony, pristine beauty, and an abundant supply of nature's gifts--when the human race was "content with foods that grew without cultivation" (Ovid, Met. 1.89-112). Dante's source for his final virtuous figure returns full circle to the Gospels (22.151-4): preaching in the desert of Judea, John the Baptist wore a garment of camel's hair and subsisted on locusts and wild honey (Matt. 3:1-4). Within the branches of the second tree emerges a mysterious voice that first identifies the tree as an offshoot of yet another tree, located higher up, whose fruit was eaten by Eve (24.116-17) and then recalls two noteworthy episodes of gluttony or self-indulgence (24.121-6). The cursed creatures (born of the clouds) with double chests are the Centaurs, horse-men well known for their bouts of debauchery. One such episode occurred at a wedding celebration when Eurytus, the fiercest Centaur, became drunk and all hell broke loose: "Immediately the wedding feast was thrown into confusion, as tables were overturned, and the new bride was violently dragged off by the hair. Eurytus seized Hippodame, and others carried off whichever girl they fancied, or whichever one they could" (Ovid, Met. 12.222-5). Among the men present, Theseus was the first to react: he freed the bride from the Centaurs, and, when Eurytus attacked, he killed the horse-man by splitting open his head with a heavy antique bowl (Met. 12.227-40). An all-out battle ensued in which Theseus sent numerous other Centaurs to their death (Met. 12.341-54). The second example, from the Bible, refers to the vast majority of Gideon's men who lapped water with their tongues, as dogs do, when God decided which men would accompany Gideon into battle against Midian to deliver the Israelites from oppression. Of the ten thousand men with Gideon at the time, only the three hundred who Source URL: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/08gluttony.html Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/courses/engl409 © Guy P. Raffa Saylor.org Used under academic permission. Page 3 of 6 Page 3 of 6 drank by bowing down and bringing water to their mouth with their hands were chosen for the mission (Judges 7:4-7). Dante's Tenzone with Forese. Canto 23.115-17 Dante tells Forese Donati that recalling their past life together would weigh heavily on them (23.115-17) because he no doubt regrets the sort of crude, bawdy humor they each expressed so well in a youthful exchange of poems. The tenzone, a literary "dispute" in which the two writers show off by alternately insulting one another, was a popular medieval genre, an early precursor of the verbal dueling heard today in "rap dissing." The combatants usually take a word or an image from the previous poem and use it as a hook upon which to hang a new theme and continue the assault.
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