Dante's Divine Comedy

Name: Dante's Divine Comedy
Genre: Documentary
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Documentary

Overview

Two gifted teachers share the fruit of two lifetimes' worth of historical and literary expertise in this introduction to one of the greatest works ever written. One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, the Divine Comedy (or Commedia) of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is a book for life.

English

Key Crew

William R. Cook, Ph.D.

Host

Ronald B. Herzman, Ph.D.

Host

Dante's Divine Comedy

Overview

Key Crew

Reading the Poem: Issues and Editions

A Poet and His City: Dante's Florence

Literary Antecedents I

Literary Antecedents II

''Abandon Every Hope, All You Who Enter''

The Never-Ending Storm

Heretics

The Seventh Circle: The Violent

The Sin of Simony

The False Counselors

The Ultimate Evil

The Seven-Story Mountain

Purgatory's Waiting Room

The Sin of Pride

The Vision to Freedom

Homage to Virgil

Dante's New Guide

Ascending the Spheres

An Emperor Speaks

The Circle of the Sun: Saints and Sages

A Mission Revealed: Encounter with an Ancestor

Can a Pagan Be Saved?

Faith, Hope, Love, and the Mystic Empyrean

''In My End Is My Beginning''

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