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Dante's Divine Comedy

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Join two gifted teachers as they share the fruit of two lifetimes' worth of historical and literary expertise in this introduction to one of the greatest works ever written.

Syllabus

  • 01: Reading the Poem - Issues and Editions
  • 02: A Poet and His City - Dante's Florence
  • 03: Literary Antecedents, I
  • 04: Literary Antecedents, II
  • 05: “Abandon Every Hope, All You Who Enter”
  • 06: The Never-Ending Storm
  • 07: Heretics
  • 08: The Seventh Circle - The Violent
  • 09: The Sin of Simony
  • 10: The False Counselors
  • 11: The Ultimate Evil
  • 12: The Seven-Story Mountain
  • 13: Purgatory's Waiting Room
  • 14: The Sin of Pride
  • 15: The Vision to Freedom
  • 16: Homage to Virgil
  • 17: Dante's New Guide
  • 18: Ascending the Spheres
  • 19: An Emperor Speaks
  • 20: The Circle of the Sun - Saints and Sages
  • 21: A Mission Revealed - Encounter with an Ancestor
  • 22: Can a Pagan Be Saved?
  • 23: Faith, Hope, Love, and the Mystic Empyrean
  • 24: “In My End Is My Beginning”
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William R. Cook Previous Bio Prev Next Bio Next and Ronald B. Herzman Previous Bio Prev Next Bio Next

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