Dante Alighieri Courses and Certifications

Dante Alighieri: Science and poetry in The Divine Comedy

Explore Dante's Divine Comedy through a discussion of the sources and references of the poetry and modern science

• edX
• 4 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Dante tra poesia e scienza

15 ratings

Comprendere l’avvicendarsi del discorso poetico e scientifico nella Commedia Dantesca, per avvicinare l’uomo «a quell’amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle».

• edX
• 9 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Paradise XXIV-XXVI: Dante's Examination on Theological Virtues

A close reading of Dante’s examination of faith, hope, and love in Paradiso XXIV–XXVI, linking theological virtues to reform, reason, and language.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dante's Divine Comedy - Purgatory XXIV-XXVI: Poetics and the Italian Love Lyric

A close reading of Dante’s Purgatory XXIV–XXVI, tracing Bonagiunta and Guido Guinizelli through the Comedy’s exploration of poetic identity and inspiration.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dante's Inferno Study Guide

A study guide for reading Dante's Inferno through its literary context, devices, circles of Hell, canto summaries, and key quotations.

• Study.com
• 9 hours 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Dante's Paradise: The Final Cantos and Beatific Vision - Lecture 23

1 rating

A close reading of Dante’s final cantos, tracing the ascent into the Empyrean, the farewell to Beatrice, and the poet’s struggle to describe the divine vision.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Divine Comedy: Dante's Journey to Freedom

3 ratings

Jorge Luis Borges, the great Argentine writer, said that no one should deny themselves the pleasure of reading Dante's Divine Comedy. In this course, you will discover precisely what Borges meant.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 9-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Dante's Divine Comedy: Purgatory Cantos X-XII and XVI-XVII - Lecture 12

A close reading of Dante’s Purgatory explores pride, wrath, artistic creation, and the theological tension between divine foreknowledge and human freedom.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dante's Inferno: Cantos XIX, XXI, XXV, and XXVI - Prophecy, Sacrilege, and Poetic Hubris

Examines how Dante’s treatment of simony, prophecy, poetic hubris, and Ulysses dramatizes the risks of his poetic vocation in Inferno.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dante's Divine Comedy

153 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

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.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 12 hours 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Dante's Paradise: Justice, Contemplation, and Vision - Cantos XVIII, XIX, XXI, XXII

1 rating

A close reading of Dante’s Paradiso on justice, contemplative vision, and the tension between political, philosophical, and theological perspectives.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Divine Comedy: Dante's Journey to Freedom, Part 2 (Purgatorio)

After his harrowing descent into the depths of despair, the Pilgrim Dante emerges with Virgil onto the Isle of Mount Purgatorio in the southern hemisphere. There he will be healed of sin and prepared

• edX
• 7 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Dante's Inferno: Violence, Suicide, and Sodomy - Cantos XII-XVI

A close reading of Dante’s Inferno XIII and XV links Pier delle Vigne and Brunetto Latini to questions of authority and humanistic values.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dante's Divine Comedy - Purgatory Cantos V, VI, IX, and X Analysis

A close reading of Dante’s Purgatory V, VI, IX, and X explores moral purification, political conflict, artistic vision, and measurement.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dante's Purgatory - Cantos I and II Analysis

A close reading of Dante’s Purgatory, Cantos I and II, exploring its moral topography, Cato’s role, freedom, exile, and the pilgrim’s attachment to the past.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video