His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Why Should We Read Dante’s Divine Comedy? An Animated Video Makes the Caseīased in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcas ts on cities, language, and culture. Visualizing Dante’s Hell: See Maps & Drawings of Dante’s Inferno from the Renaissance Through TodayĮxplore Divine Comedy Digital, a New Digital Database That Collects Seven Centuries of Art Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy “Long after the fires of Hell have burned themselves out,” he writes, “the debate about the Divina Commedia rages on.” Find more educational resources on Dante and The Divine Comedy below.Ī Free Online Course on Dante’s Divine Comedy from Yale UniversityĪn Illustrated and Interactive Dante’s Inferno: Explore a New Digital Companion to the Great 14th-Century Epic PoemĪ Digital Archive of the Earliest Illustrated Editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1487-1568) EPIC CHARACTER OF THE DIVINA COMMEDIA 353 the heavenly mansion of the Father, the human souls redeemed by the visible mission of the Son. You may well find, as the long Italy-resident English writer and translator Tim Parks observes, that Dante has a way of slipping through convenient interpretative frameworks cultural, historical, and even religious. But believer or otherwise, you can join in the reading from when it begins on September 8, to when it concludes on Easter 2022. One of 100 Days of Dante‘s aims is a re-emphasis of its nature as a thoroughly religious work, one that renders in vivid, sometimes harrowing detail the worldview held by Christians of Dante’s place and time. Nobody interested in the language of Italy, let alone the country’s history and culture, can do without experiencing the Divine Comedy. Each video will present one canto, with commentary on it from leading experts in Dante studies.” You can also read the entire work on 100 Days of Dante’s web site, in English or Italian - a language Dante’s own poetry did much to shape. So writes Aleteia’s John Burger, who explains that “the three books of the Divine Comedy, known in Italian as Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, are divided into 33 chapters known as cantos.

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