Dante's Divine Comedy Part 1

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Lecture 1. Reading the poem--issues and editions -- Lecture 2. A poet and his city--Dante's Florence -- Lecture 3. Literary antecedents I -- Lecture 4. Literary antecedents II -- Lecture 5. "Abandon every hope, all you who enter" -- Lecture 6. The never-ending storm -- Lecture 7. Heretics -- Lecture 8. The seventh circle--the violent -- Lecture 9. The sin of simony -- Lecture 10. The false counselors -- Lecture 11. The ultimate evil -- Lecture 12. The seven-story mountain.
Lecture 13. Purgatory's waiting room -- Lecture 14. The sin of pride -- Lecture 15. The vision to freedom -- Lecture 16. Homage to Virgil -- Lecture 17. Dante's new guide -- Lecture 18. Ascending the spheres -- Lecture 19. An emperor speaks -- Lecture 20. The circle of the sun--saints and sages -- Lecture 21. A mission revealed--encounter with an ancestor -- Lecture 22. Can a pagan be saved? -- Lecture 23. Faith, hope, love, and the mystic empyrean -- Lecture 24. "In my end is my beginning."
This 24-lecture course is intended to help you analyze and appreciate the long poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) known as the Divine Comedy.
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