A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy with Jason Baxter

What is the heavenly rose? How does Dante present heaven as a sort of cosmic symphony? We find out about the great medieval poet and his greatest work ‘The Divine Comedy’.

Jason Baxter is associate professor of fine arts and humanities at Wyoming Catholic College in the States.

His book, ‘A Beginner’s Guide To Dante’s Divine Comedy’ is published by Baker Academic, a division of Baker books in the States. 

• (0:47) Who was Dante?
• (1:57) How politics affected Dante in his lifetime;
• (4:43) The Divine Comedy as the greatest work of the Western imagination?
• (8:31) What happens in the Divine Comedy? A man finds himself in the middle of a wood and can’t remember how he got there.  But then… a journey into deep hell and into heaven.  A vision of the Trinity and a ride in the driveshaft of the universe.  A medieval space story.
• (13:35) Medieval views of the cosmos;
• (18:18) Dante’s Beatrice;
• (21:42) Dante’s vision of heaven.  Do souls in heaven fall more deeply in love? Falling in love gets to go to heaven;
• (27:10) What is the heavenly rose?
• (29:15) Jason’s Dante translation.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.jasonmbaxter.com

www.bakerpublishinggroup.com

A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy : Jason M. Baxter : 9780801098734 (bookdepository.com)

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