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MM#57--Dante's Inferno, part 2--Where Hope Dies


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In this second episode on Dante's Inferno, we continue to look back at Dante's Divine Comedy, 700 years later and how it continues to teach and instruct us as one of the greatest classics ever written and most certainly the greatest Christian poem every penned.   David dives deep into Anthony Esolen's translation of the Inferno,  The Divine Comedy, book one, Inferno by Dante Alighieri to explore human nature confronting the gates of hell.


Key Points from the Episode:

  • We encounter the gates of Hell
  • We look into our souls to understand what is courage.
  • What can we learn from Dante's Inferno those ordered and good loves like humility and to understand of the right roles of creator vs creature so as to avoid Hell for ourselves.  Furthermore, we to learn to develop and act upon-- faith, hope and love along the journey of our lives.

Other resources:

Anthony Esolen's study & commentary on Inferno in audiobook  (recommended from MM#52--part 1 of Dante's Inferno)

Columbia University offers an incredible "Digital Dante" website with many translations and commentaries.  It is extremely well done.

Hillsdale College has a wonderful ten-part video series teaching of the Divine Comedy 

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