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- Sordello's Poem "Blacatz", and its echo in The Valley of Princes
A look at Sordello's most famous Poem, and how Dante draws inspiration from it in his description of the Valley of Princes in Canto VII of the Purgatory.
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16 min - Meditation #1 - Dante's entry into the Terrace of Anger
Brief reflection on the third terrace in Purgatory.
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6 min - The Creation of the Angels
In Canto 29 of Paradiso Dante describes the when, where and why of the Creation of Angels.
Full essay is here:
https://dantescomedy.com/the-creation-of-the-angelsEnjoy!
10 min - The First Mover - and Motion
In just seven tercets, Dante inverts the model of the Universe from the material to the conceptual, and describes the origin and source of Motion and Time itself.
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11 min - The Keys to Entering Heaven - the Pilgrim is Examined
From the 8th sphere in Paradiso!
The essay is here:
https://dantescomedy.com/the-examination-of-virtues-for-the-pilgrimEnjoy!
8 min - Love and Wisdom, in the Sphere of the Sun
How Dante connects Seraphims and Cherubims with the Franciscan and Dominican Orders, as two major defining elements of the Divine and Theology itself, in the sphere of the Sun.
7 min - The Birth of the Divine Comedy
The moment when the Poem is born.
From John Ciardi's translation of the Divine Comedy.
7 min - The Mystery of Beatrice's Prophecy
A suggestion for interpreting the number "515" at the end of Purgatory.
From dantescomedy.com
5 min - 13 min
- Paradiso, Canto 1. Reading and commentary.
Looking at the great translation of the Divine Comedy by John D. Sinclair from the 1940s.
35 min
About The Renaissance & Dante's Divine Comedy
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Reflections on the Divine Comedy and the philosophical foundations that Dante created for the Florentine Renaissance, through unifying the Greek and the Hebrew traditions into a comprehensive…
cosmology - and blending the old with the current.
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