6 april 2023
27 min
Dante and the Meaning of Easter
What is the meaning of Easter? How might Holy Week be more than an occasion for its retelling? Can death and resurrection live today, as they once did, 2000 years ago? Dante’s journey, in the Divine Comedy, begins on Maundy Thursday, 1300. It continues through the inferno, on Good Friday and Holy Saturday, before he enters purgatory on Easter Sunday morning, at dawn. The climb up Mount Purgatory, then, takes until Easter Wednesday when, finally, Dante reaches paradise. Though that is ...
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Dante's Divine Comedy
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4 maj 2025
Pimps, remorse and blood. Dante's Divine Comedy and the critique of the Papacy
48 min
11 mars 2025
The way down is the way up. Dante on how to live in turbulent times. Lessons from The Divine Comedy
6 min
4 oktober 2024
Is hell forever? The Inferno. Jason Baxter & Mark Vernon on Dante’s film noir
60 min
11 juli 2024
Is hell really boring? Rowan Williams & Jesse Armstrong, Dante & William Blake
33 min
13 juni 2024
Dante and civilisational decline. A dispatch on disillusionment in politics
15 min
25 november 2023
What is intelligence? Dante in an age of AI
42 min
5 augusti 2023
Seeing the Unsayable. Dante’s ineffable images
22 min
6 mars 2023
Dante and Eternal Damnation
27 min
23 december 2022
Angels, Dreams & Myths. Dante on times of transition
17 min
28 augusti 2022
How can we transhumanise? And why we need to
35 min