Alexander Schmid Podcast

Dante's The Divine Comedy 2019: Lecture 3: Cantos 1-2 (The Dark Wood)

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Synopsis

In this lecture, we (a) lay-out the fundamentals of an allegorical interpretation of Dante vs. a literal one, (b) met Virgil, three beasts, three angelic-women (by proxy), and (c) laid of the structure of Plato's tripartite soul, related that to the types of sin in Dante's "Inferno", and then attributed those "corruptions of the soul" to the interpretation of the three beasts Dante meets on the way up the mountain in Canto I. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support