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Conversations exploring Dante's Divine Comedy with leading scholars, acclaimed academics, and innovative researchers. Join host Richard Emerson for in-depth discussions that bridge medieval wisdom with contemporary insights, revealing how Dante's masterwork continues to illuminate our path forward.dailypurgatory.com
Richard Emerson hosts Dante's Divine Comedy - Daily Purgatory, a society show with 34 episodes published.
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Join us for an enlightening conversation with translator and Dante scholar Joe Carlson as we explore the deeper meanings of Dante's Purgatorio. We'll dive into how Pride distorts our perception of reality, examining medi
A Conversation about the main topics and purpose of the Third Sphere in Dante's Paradiso - the Sphere of Venus. We'll meet the souls of Carlo Martello, Cunizza, and Bishop Folchetto, and explore the themes of mercy, forg
A Conversation about the Sphere of Mercury in Paradiso, and how the Transcendent and Divine Truth is shining through the bigger scales of Empires, Civilizations and Humanity itself. One of the main arguments in the Secon
A Conversation about the Sphere of the Moon in Paradiso, with some of the main themes and the idea of transformation of perspective and experience of Being. With English Professor and Podcaster about Dante, Robert-Louis
In this episode we're having independent Dante Researcher Tom LA Books back for a conversation about the Big Picture of the Divine Comedy. We'll talk about how we can see some of the major themes of this overall picture
Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Ivy League Professor Dr. Phil Cary, about the structure of Dante's Cosmology and the 24 wise people in the sphere of the Sun. We'll also talk about the movement of the souls,
In the episode we'll look at the arts and architecture of the 13 hundreds, and the events with the Rise of Banking Families, an economic crash, the Black Death, and the temporary move backwards with the Oligarchy of the
In this episode we'll look at the deeper theological themes in the Lord of the Rings, and see how they are expressed by J.R.R. Tolkien, and in Dante's Divine Comedy. We'll also see how the beauty and wisdom of deep theol
In this episode we're having our first guest here on the podcast! We're very happy to present to you Tommaso in LA, who's currently making an excellent 100 video series on the Divine Comedy on his youtube channel, and we
In this episode we'll look at the historical events of the 12 hundreds in Florence, with the rise of the Merhcant class, the rivalries between dynasties, and the wars between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. This is a very h
In this episode we'll look at Epistle VII that Dante wrote to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg, after Henry's descent into Italy in 1310. We'll go through the historical context of the letter, as well as Da
In this fourth and final episode about the First Letter by Dante to Cardinal Niccolò da Prato, we'll look very briefly at the events between 1302-1304 with the new Pope Benedict XI, and the Letter or Epistle I in its ful
In this third episode on the background for Dante's Epistle I to Cardinal Niccolò da Prato in 1304, we'll look at the events and chaos that comes when the French Prince Charles of Valois enters Florence, and until the fi
In this second episode on the historical background for Dante's Epistle I to Cardinal Niccolò da Prato in 1304, we'll look at the events from Dante's summer as a Prior in June 1300, until the entering of the French Princ
In this episode we'll look at the historical background of Dante's First Epistle to Cardinal Niccolò in 1304, by outlining the events in Florence from January to June of the year 1300. After a brief peace in the city, th
In this episode we'll look at the main highlights from Dante's Epistle XIII to Lord Can Grande della Scala, his Patron in Verona, to whom Dante dedicates the Third Canticle of the Divine Comedy, the Paradiso. We'll also
In the Epistle XI to the Italian Cardinals in 1314, Dante both makes a plea to elect an Italian Pope and return the Papacy to Rome, and also compares the Church to the Greek Myth of Phaethon, who loses control over Apoll
In 1314 Dante wrote an Epistle to the Italian Cardinals defending himself from the charge that he was behaving like Uzzah in the old Biblical Stories, who was struck dead as he touched the Holy Ark. Dante then separates
After ascending up the mountain we’re entering into the Garden of Eden, where the Pilgrim meets Beatrice and drinks from the two rivers of Lethe and Eunoë. The first river is to remove the memories of sins, and the secon
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