Dante's Divine Comedy

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.

• By This Professor
• By This Professor
• 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"