Dec 22, 2024  
2020-2021 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies (Admitted Fall 2020/Spring 2021) 
    
2020-2021 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies (Admitted Fall 2020/Spring 2021) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARGS 810 - Dante: The Inferno

3 credits
This course offers the student the rare luxury of the medieval “lectio,” a careful reading of Dante’s Inferno with relevant commentary.  The vast scope of the Divine Comedy invites the reader to explore, by way of poetic imagination, a wide array of topics pertinent to understanding the late medieval/early Renaissance world: its history, politics, philosophy, theology and spirituality.  In the Inferno, Dante takes us through the nine circles of Hell, a paradigm of human existence.  



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