Episode 2: Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson Talks about Dante's Divine Comedy and Hope

In episode 2 of Guardians of Beauty, Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson — the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas in the Classical Education and Humanities Graduate Program —talks about Dante Alighieri, widely regarded as one of Italy’s greatest poets, who wrote The Divine Comedy. She talks about how he and the poem inspires hope in her.

To find out more about Dr. Wilson, go to her site at https://jessicahootenwilson.com/

To find out more about Bishop Robert Barron's journal of the Word on Fire Institute, which Dr. Wilson wrote on the virtue of hope in the winter edition, go to the following site: https://wordonfire.institute/journal/

Special thanks go to the actors who shared their voices in the episode: Sven Gazzara, who plays the part of Dante Alighieri, and Bethany Duckworth, who plays the part of Sister Lucia Dos Santos.

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