Dante's Divine comedy [videorecording] /
Divine comedy
[William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman].
- [Springfield, VA] : Teaching Co. Partnership, c2001.
- 4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
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pt. 1. disc 1. lecture 1. Reading the poem: issues and editions ; lecture 2. A poet and his city: Dante's Florence ; lecture 3. Literary antecedents, I ; lecture 4. Literary antecedents, II ; lecture 5. "Abandon every hope, all you who enter" ; lecture 6. The never-ending storm -- disc 2. lecture 7. Heretics ; lecture 8. The seventh circle: the violent ; lecture 9. The sin of simony ; lecture 10. The false counselors ; lecture 11. The ultimate evil ; lecture 12. The seven-story mountain. pt. 2. disc 3. lecture 13. Purgatory's waiting room ; lecture 14. The sin of pride ; lecture 15. The vision to freedom ; lecture 16. Homage to Virgil ; lecture 17. Dante's new guide ; lecture 18. Ascending the spheres -- disc 4. lecture 19. An emperor speaks ; lecture 20. The circle of the sun: saints and sages ; lecture 21. A mission revealed: encounter with an ancestor ; lecture 22. Can a pagan be saved? ; lecture 23. Faith, hope, love and the mystic empyrean ; lecture 24. My end is my beginning.
Producers, Noreen Bizzarri, Jaim�ee M. Aigret ; director, Tom Dunton. Producers, Noreen Bizzarri, Jaim�ee M. Aigret ; director, Tom Dunton.
Lecturers: William R. Cook, Ronald B. Herzman of the State University of New York, Geneseo.
Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each on Dante's famous poem. Includes portraits, photographs, maps, and diagrams.