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📚 Read the Great Books with the Hardcore Literature Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature ———————————— 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/70IZA24... (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify) 📖 Book Club Discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/who-is-greatest-101291574 Hardcore Literature Lecture Series ———————————— 📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3 🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma 🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7 🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf ☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp 🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt 🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN 🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv 💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5 ⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b 🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4 🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA 📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c ———————————— 0:00 abandon all hope ye who enter here 0:30 why should you read Dante’s Inferno? 1:30 the Supreme Poet of Italian Literature 2:30 how to read Dante’s Inferno 3:00 is Dante Alighieri a difficult poet? 4:00 Divine Comedy as grand allegory 5:30 you’re already a master of symbolism 6:00 the beginning of Dante’s Inferno 7:00 ‘midway in the journey of our life’ 8:00 experiencing midlife spiritual crisis 9:30 ‘I came to myself in a dark wood’ 10:00 going through hell to get to heaven 11:00 looking your dark side in the face 12:00 when is Dante’s Inferno set? 12:30 Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso 13:00 why is it called The Divine Comedy? 13:30 what does descending into hell mean? 14:00 recognition, renunciation, reward 14:30 journalling, note-making, rereading 15:00 do you have to read Dante religiously? 15:30 heaven, hell, purgatory as states of mind 17:30 Dante the Pilgrim vs Dante the Poet 18:30 symbolism of leopard, lion, she-wolf 19:30 the influence of Virgil’s Aeneid 20:00 epics of Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milion 21:00 Italian vernacular vs Classical Latin 21:30 Virgil as guide in Dante’s Inferno 22:30 Dante’s Beatrice as Divine Love 24:00 analysing the architecture of hell 24:30 understanding the law of contrapasso 25:00 exploring the nine circles of hell 25:30 virtuous pagans in Limbo/circle one 26:40 lustful sinners in the second circle 28:00 gluttonous sinners in the third circle 29:00 greedy sinners in the fourth circle 30:30 wrathful sinners in the fifth circle 31:30 heretic sinners in the sixth circle 32:00 what are the cantos in Dante’s Inferno? 34:00 violent sinners in the seventh circle 35:00 fraudster sinners in the eight circle 36:00 traitor sinners in the ninth circle 38:00 cosmology of Dante’s universe 38:50 nine spheres of Dante’s paradise 39:00 welcome to the darkest depths of hell 39:30 Dante’s Satan vs Milton’s Satan 40:20 themes to note for beginning readers 41:00 theme of sinfulness in Dante’s Inferno 41:30 why was Dante exiled from Florence? 42:00 Guelphs vs Ghibellines in medieval Italy 43:00 political persecution of Dante Alighieri 43:30 what sins was Dante was guilty of? 44:00 difference between hell & purgatory 45:00 beautiful message at heart of Christianity 46:00 what are the seven deadly sins? 47:00 how to overcome your personal vices 49:00 multiple meanings & inexhaustibility 50:00 architectonics & back-illumination 51:30 what is the best translation of Dante? 53:00 terza rima of Dante’s Divine Comedy 54:00 Italian rhyming vs English rhyming 54:30 translators as puritans vs cavaliers 56:00 how to choose the right translation 57:30 John Ciardi’s translation of Dante 1:00:00 translation comparison exercise 1:01:40 Hollander translation of Dante 1:03:40 Mark Musa translation of Dante 1:05:20 Mandelbaum translation of Dante 1:07:15 Clive James translation of Dante 1:10:00 Dante’s Inferno book club lectures