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Dante and His Afterlife  
Dante Alighieri's fourteenth-century Italian poem The Divine Comedy and its influence on later writers. The narrator's journey through the inferno and purgatory to paradise, including encounters with his beloved Beatrice and with the poet Vergil. How Dante's artist-hero inspired late-eighteenth-century Romantic poets. Matthew Pearl's mystery The Dante Club, about Dante translators who solve a Boston murder.
Program 221
  Participants
Benjamin Bennett
Matthew Pearl
Lino Pertile

 

 
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