Bibliograph

Dante's Divine comedy, William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman

Type

Label

Dante's Divine comedy, William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Dante's Divine comedy

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

811052156

Responsibility statement

William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman

Runtime

720

Series statement

The great courses. Literature & language

Summary

Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each on Dante's famous poem. Includes portraits, photographs, maps, and diagrams

Table Of Contents

pt. 1. disc 1. lecture 1. Reading the poem: issues and editions ; lecture 2. A poet and his city: Dante's Florence ; lecture 3. Literary antecedents, I ; lecture 4. Literary antecedents, II ; lecture 5. "Abandon every hope, all you who enter" ; lecture 6. The never-ending storm -- disc 2. lecture 7. Heretics ; lecture 8. The seventh circle: the violent ; lecture 9. The sin of simony ; lecture 10. The false counselors ; lecture 11. The ultimate evil ; lecture 12. The seven-story mountainpt. 2. disc 3. lecture 13. Purgatory's waiting room ; lecture 14. The sin of pride ; lecture 15. The vision to freedom ; lecture 16. Homage to Virgil ; lecture 17. Dante's new guide ; lecture 18. Ascending the spheres -- disc 4. lecture 19. An emperor speaks ; lecture 20. The circle of the sun: saints and sages ; lecture 21. A mission revealed: encounter with an ancestor ; lecture 22. Can a pagan be saved? ; lecture 23. Faith, hope, love and the mystic empyrean ; lecture 24. My end is my beginning

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Divine comedy

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