Can Dante’s Inferno Save the World? (Previously Recorded Webinar)
$15.00
This webinar taught by Dr. Jason Baxter will introduce (or reintroduce) readers to Dante’s Inferno by focusing on how the moral urgency of Dante’s collapsing world led him to attempt a daring form of poetry which he thought could save the world. In particular, we’ll focus on how Dante’s Franciscan understanding of history led him to recycle a Boethian sense of poetry’s transformative power. But we’ll also talk about why the poem is so gritty and rough, and how Baxter’s new translation will try to tackle all of this.
This is a previously recorded webinar.
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This webinar taught by Dr. Jason Baxter will introduce (or reintroduce) readers to Dante’s Inferno by focusing on how the moral urgency of Dante’s collapsing world led him to attempt a daring form of poetry which he thought could save the world. In particular, we’ll focus on how Dante’s Franciscan understanding of history led him to recycle a Boethian sense of poetry’s transformative power. But we’ll also talk about why the poem is so gritty and rough, and how Baxter’s new translation will try to tackle all of this.
This is a previously recorded webinar.
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