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This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we've been reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. 

This semester (September 5th), we will pick up where we left off in Purgatorio (Canto 10) and make it all the way through the rest of the Divine Comedy, finishing Paradiso December 5th.

Dates: Every other Thursday starting September 5th
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM ET
Location: Zoom

Syllabus

9/5 - Purg. Cantos 9 - 16
9/19 - Purg. 17 - 27
10/3 - Purg. 28 - 33 (end)
10/17 - Pard. 1 - 9
11/7 - Pard. 10 - 22
11/21 - Pard. 23 - 27
12/5 - Pard. 28 - 33 (end)