| Description |
12 audio discs (720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.). |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
Compact discs. |
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In two parts (containers). Each part consists of six sound discs and a course guidebook. |
| Summary |
This 24-lecture course is intended to help you analyze and appreciate the long poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) known as the Divine Comedy. |
| Contents |
part I. 1. Reading the poem : issues and editions -- 2. A poet and his city : Dante's Florence -- 3. Literary antecedents I -- 4. Literary antecedents II -- 5. "Abandon every hope, all you who enter" -- 6. The never-ending storm -- 7. Heretics -- 8. The seventh circle : the violent -- 9. The sin of simony -- 10. The false counselors -- 11. The ultimate evil -- 12. The seven-story mountain. |
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part II. 13. Purgatory's waiting room -- 14. The sin of pride -- 15. The vision to freedom -- 16. Homage to Virgil -- 17. Dante's new guide -- 18. Ascending the spheres -- 19. An emperor speaks -- 20. The circle of the sun : saints and sages -- 21. A mission revealed : encounter with an ancestor -- 22. Can a pagan be saved -- 23. Faith, hope, love, and the mystic empyrean -- 24. "In my end is my beginning." |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divine comedy. English.
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| Added Author |
Herzman, Ronald B.
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Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Divine comedy |
| ISBN |
1565853121: $179.95 |
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9781565853126 |
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9791565853125 |
| Music No. |
287 Teaching Company |
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285--286 Teaching Company |
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