Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy podcast

What's Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy about?

Beginning 18 October and continuing over four years, a team of Dante experts from the U.K. and abroad will carry out a series of public lectures on the Comedy that explore the 'vertical' connections between cantos of the same number across all three canticles. This is the first time that this method of reading (a method that has been discussed by Dante scholars and executed very successfully in studies of single cantos) will be systematically employed to tackle the entire poem.

The project has been funded for 2012-2013 by the Department of Italian at Cambridge and CIRN.

The Public Lectures are at 6pm in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

What's Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy about?

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Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy episodes:

'Ice, Fire, and Holy Water: Inferno XXXIII and XXXIV, Purgatorio XXXIII, Paradiso XXXIII'

'Beauty and the BEast': Inferno XXXI, Purgatorio XXXI, Paradiso XXXI

'Brooks, Melting Snow, River of Light': Inferno XXX, Purgatorio XXX, Paradiso XXX

'Truth, Untruth and the Moment of Indwelling': Inferno XXIX, Purgatorio XXIX, Paradiso XXIX'

‘Cosmographic Cartography and the “Perfect” 28s’ Inferno XXVIII, Purgatorio XXVIII, Paradiso XXVIII.

"Contenti nel foco": Of Containers and Things Contained. Inferno XXVII, Purgatorio XVII, Paradiso XXVII

'The Poetry of Trespassing: Inferno XXVI, Purgatorio XXVI, Paradiso XXVI'

'Changes: Inferno XXV, Purgatorio XXV Paradiso XXV

'True Desire: Inferno XXIV, Purgatorio XXIV, Paradiso XXIV'

'Truth, Autobiography, and the Poetry of Salvation: Inferno XXII, Purgatorio XXII, Paradiso XXII'

'Our Bodies, Our Selves: Crucified, Famished, Nourished: Inferno XXIII, Purgatorio XXIII, Paradiso XXIII'

'God's Beloved: From Pitch, through Script to Writ: Inferno XXI, Purgatorio XXI, Paradiso XXI'

'Inside Out: Inferno XIX, Purgatorio XIX, Paradiso XIX'

Prediction, Predestination, and the Limits of Perception: Inferno XX, Purgatorio XX, Paradiso XX

'Sloth,Seduction, and Song: Inferno XVIII, Purgatorio XVIII, Paradiso XVIII

'Seductive Lies, Unpalatable Truths, Alter Egos: Inferno XVII, Purgatorio XVII, Paradiso XVII'

'Politics of Desire: Inferno XVI, Purgatorio XVI, Paradiso XVI'

'Fatherlands: Inferno XV, Purgatorio XV, Paradiso XV'

'Fixity and Flow: The Patterning of History in Inferno XIV, Purgatorio XIV, Paradiso XIV'.

'Strange but True: Sights and Sounds in Inferno XIII, Purgatorio XIII, Paradiso XIII'

'Centaurs, Spiders, and Saints: Inferno XII, Purgatorio XII, Paradiso XII'

'Acts of Love: Life and Art in the Cantos Eleven of the Commedia: Inferno XI, Purgatorio XI, Paradiso XI'

'Humility and the (P)arts of Art: Inferno X, Purgatorio X, Paradiso X'

'Without Violence: Inferno IX, Purgatorio IX, Paradiso IX'

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Eights

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Sevens

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Sixes

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Fives

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Fours

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Threes

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Twos

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Ones