Dante's Divine comedy [videorecording] / [William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: 287 | Teaching Company285--286 | Teaching CompanySeries: SuperStar teachers | Great courses (DVD)Publication details: [Springfield, VA] : Teaching Co. Partnership, c2001.Description: 4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1565855949 :
  • 9781565855946
Other title:
  • Divine comedy
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PQ4390 .C66 2001d
Contents:
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.
Production credits:
  • 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.Summary: Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each on Dante's famous poem. Includes portraits, photographs, maps, and diagrams.
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DVD, region 1.

Lecturers: William R. Cook, Ronald B. Herzman of the State University of New York, Geneseo.

Producers, Noreen Bizzarri, Jaim�ee M. Aigret ; director, Tom Dunton.

Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each on Dante's famous poem. Includes portraits, photographs, maps, and diagrams.

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.

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