Why has Dante's THE DIVINE COMEDY lasted 700 years? Its architecture, its invitation to multiplicity, and its very human motivation: love.
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Limbo is Dante's first donnybrook, his first beef with Christian theology in THE DIVINE COMEDY. He changes church doctrine. Because he's Dante.
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Here’s a chance to look back on INFERNO, Canto I, in all of its strangeness, its lyricism, and its knottiness. We’ll look at where we’ve been AND where we’re going: a glance out across the whole poem. And we’ll talk about Dante’s wild and incredibly difficult poetics, the almost impossible structure of the lines and stanzas he chose for this great masterpiece.
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Dante remains something of a mystery, even today. We have over seven hundred years of murk between us, clouding our understanding of who he was and how he lived. However, we can pin down some facts. Let’s talk about what we know and what we don’t about who Dante was. And let’s set the poem in its historical context: the late 1200s and early 1300s CE.
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An introductory episode to the entire sweep of the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. A bit about how we’ll proceed through The Divine Comedy, a bit about who I am. But mostly, just an opening moment to get you ready for the journey ahead.
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