I read the Inferno in High School. I thought I would hate it, but I was wrong. It was incredible. I need to read the rest of the Comedia
@ABOUMAMA.Ай бұрын
Not every person in the world will understand that
@chamorvenigo3128Ай бұрын
The Aforementioned "I don't How I Got Here Line" ..1.10 Io non so ben ridir com' i' v'intrai tant' era pien di sonno a quel punto che la verace via abbandonai. - U - U U U - - U U- U-U U - - U- --U U I don't recall beast I rided to where I arrived than when at which point this sleepy spell afell then fact! the straight path ran short then void
@rickblaine96702 ай бұрын
“You found me a servant, and you left me a free man. All that a person can possibly do to save another person, you did for me.” For me, the heart of the Comedy is all in these words. Dante‘s final declaration of love to Beatrice right before the end of the journey, right before meeting God. You have to remember that this whole poem, for all its richness and complexity, was written FOR HER. It was intended, first and foremost, as a love letter to Beatrice. Everything, every single word before that final couple of verses is Dante’s way of leading up to what he has truly wanted to say all along: “thank you for inspiring me, thank you for being the light of my life”. The Divine Comedy as a whole is a declaration of love, a celebration of how much one person, by simply existing, can positively impact the life of another person. This is why it is SO important to read it all. Because, when you get to the Paradiso and specifically to those final words, everything falls into place. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. It’s just one story, and it’s a love story. Perhaps the greatest humanity has ever told.
@Robertocesare-h2g3 ай бұрын
Incredibile ! Nessuno interessa la nascita del Risorgimento.
@ChristianSasso5 ай бұрын
The best introduction to "La Commedia" I ever heard.
@markpong54355 ай бұрын
Couldn't help but notice that his jacket is two sizes bigger than it has to be.
@csaracho20092 ай бұрын
Thanks, Columbo!
@jessicaandhika55886 ай бұрын
👏👏👏👏
@Doo_Doo_Patrol8 ай бұрын
Interesting, but the sound quality is lacking,
@anotherguy50388 ай бұрын
John 14:21
@LoganArendt-v5b9 ай бұрын
Great lecture, but one minor revision: it is Cato the Younger that Dante encounters at the beginning of Purgatorio rather than Cato the Elder.
@elcintodeorion10 ай бұрын
awesome introduction! I feel a lot more confident now to start reading
@dylanmcdermott111011 ай бұрын
The Divine Comedy is the best example of world building I've read or watched, hands down
@brianhennigan834511 ай бұрын
I think Beatrice only works if she is basically his anima, an abstract idea of the perfect projected onto the projector screen of a person he only knew in part, someone he doesn't know in 360, flaws and all. She had to be someone barely human, someone who exists mainly in his mind.
@scottweaverphotovideo Жыл бұрын
I prefer The Decameron.
@scottweaverphotovideo Жыл бұрын
Ive been fascinated with The Divine Comedy since I was 13 and came upon a book in the library of Gustav Dore's illustrations. But I've come to believe it's 'lessons' are only relevant for deeply believing Catholics, and those who believe in eternal fire and punishments. Virgil himself would not have believed in much of this concept of afterlife and hellish retributions.
@giovannimoriggi58335 ай бұрын
Dante chosen Virgilio just because he came from a previous culture, because that's the meaning of humanism and renaissance. The medieval christian culture is fundamental to understand, likewise many other aspects. But the lesson is universal, because it's more about human sentiments and philosophy. For example he mentioned Mohamed, and he was 'forced' to put it in the inferno part, but Dante still recognizes his value. And, among the others, there's also a scientific layer of interpretation, because Dante used references without even knowing. The journey is obviously spiritual, but it's not a simple religious path, it's the story of our life, from the afterlife perspective. When they say it's universal, trust that: in the end of the Comedy, there's love as the god, not god as the love. Even if we don't care about religion, we can relate, because Dante's critics is toward everything, even religious hypocrisy.
@thomasascuderi948929 күн бұрын
Aeneas meeting Dido in the underworld isn't every bit terrible. What about when his own dead father leads Aeneas through gate of false dreams dismissing one of truth. The Aeneid literally ends in the instant of brutal murder when mercy was seriously considered mere lines before.
@ishmaelforester9825 Жыл бұрын
'In the middle of my life I find myself in a dark wood... ...but since I got some good there, I must tell you about the bad as well...'
@MrDavidbr1970 Жыл бұрын
What does the second book of maccabees have to do with Muslims???
@erickelleher3911 Жыл бұрын
This is a genius lecture on Dante, thanks 🙏
@erickelleher3911 Жыл бұрын
It's not Dante, but still pretty good m.kzbin.info/aero/PLiCoO2FHdEP5KH-BbbChTiGFOaY_bVNmh
@maxfrank13 Жыл бұрын
Superb.
@deaglanodonghaile5514 Жыл бұрын
A tremendous lecture with brilliant content and delivery
@callum7081 Жыл бұрын
Excellent lecture
@booishoois309 Жыл бұрын
Really good speaker but his suit jacket is way too big for him. He looks like a kid dressing up in his parent's clothes.
@juniorblanco7831 Жыл бұрын
Everyone needs to know this
@atkkeqnfr2 жыл бұрын
This guy isn't worthy of carrying Mark Vernon's jockstrap.
@inthetearoom2 жыл бұрын
what an amazing talk, able to speak of this within the cultural context that it was written
@setsappa15402 жыл бұрын
Ou, I bumped into this while beeing half way through the Inferno.. and I find this tremendously helpful already. Thank you sire, I hope you are very well.
@cinamnotyw2 жыл бұрын
Very nice awsome😇🤑🤑
@rickjames6182 жыл бұрын
47B.C... and they call themselves atheists 🖕😎👎
@sararosey332 жыл бұрын
23:00.....with no ‘proper’ educational schooling, I understand, directions degrees dimensions for/from within all are given to receive, show-shine free will to believe , through fear will grieve to accept and relieve.. eventually event invent a new u through duality in unity -you will see, all life living harmoniously naturally ... eventually invent unity intentionally collectively universally ascending consciously 💗🙏🏼💫☯️🍀
@1111manny2 жыл бұрын
Bravo 👏
@QueenYak2 жыл бұрын
Love this guy's passion and clarity of thought. Bravo.
@davidcrispel23852 жыл бұрын
great lecture and insight. I have been reading " Comedia" with a friend, whose great research adds alot to all the characters we encountered in Inferno, Purgatorio, and now in Paradiso. We have about 20 cantos left to finish the great poem. I reccomend reading with a friend. Thank you professor Cook for a great lecture.
@hauntedhose2 жыл бұрын
3:15 🥵
@Taino1372 жыл бұрын
14:13 He's wrong. Sin is something imposed on us by God, and we are unable to resist, or fight it, so that we are forced to beg for something we could never have. For that, I tell God every day to screw himself, to take this planet and shove it.
@simoncharacter012 жыл бұрын
it's amazing you believe such things.
@knpstrr2 жыл бұрын
"Journeying up the seven story mountain... that by the way, Dante largely invented." FYI purgatory is invented.
@theccpisaparasite88133 жыл бұрын
Lecture starts at 3:11
@boymiyagi2 жыл бұрын
Dankie
@Ferdinand314 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, my dude
@alitaqwa85013 жыл бұрын
Watch ,,.,THE LADY OF HEAVEN Movie trailer 🎬👌,,, and thank you
@randyklinger76493 жыл бұрын
Great, but can't people speak like normal people, is Cook on amphetamines?
@martinisreb95023 жыл бұрын
Excellent, thanks.
@noabaak3 жыл бұрын
sorry, I am not enjoying it. Pls watch Yale Dante ‘Inferno’ lectures. You will love them. Done by rreal Italian professor. - NYC, 6/29/2021
@simoncharacter012 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!! 100%
@tedvillalon41393 жыл бұрын
Such a great introduction, I can't wait to hear myself speak. Well, his talk is great.
@MegaZidzid3 жыл бұрын
religious brainwashing mumbo jumbo 👎👎
@breenguyen79903 жыл бұрын
The panicky patient gully identify because road explicitly snow within a lacking myanmar. slim, coordinated layer
@yvesantoinenadig48213 жыл бұрын
Just liked this video as the 666th person
@zurdinator3 жыл бұрын
I don't know, you guys can call me crazy, but I'm so tired of these intellectuals providing so much context and so much explanations and attempts to relate the contents of a book to our personal lives, and talk in all these verbose terms about life, death, destiny, sin... in the end everything has a context and a lecture like all these can be made about anything, really. Probably in 500 years, if there are people still around, there will be guys conceptualizing the metaphysics of guys in the past going to burger king to eat fast food, and the outlook they had on life back then, how they had to fill with fat their lack of purpose, etc. That's what contemporary artists do to sell the shit they create, fill its emptiness with words and concepts that are really not there. I just got extremely disappointed by the Divine Comedy, probably I had too high expectations. I appreciate the way it's written, although it's unnecessarily long and repetitive in my opinion, just to convey a sense of legitimacy by insistence and repetition. It's probably the standards of the time it was written, but to me it's just a demonstration by Dante of his capacity to write metaphors all the time to the point it's unbearable and over the top. Like every other sentence has a metaphor longer than what the sentence could actually be said in regular language. Of course many of you will feel sorry for how uncultivated I am to not appreciate such literary beauty, etc. But I can't avoid thinking that this is just a trick by him to give credibility to what he says by covering in a beautiful envelope, behind which there is not much really. I think the great value of this work is the detailed depiction of these three realms, and how it has influenced our vision of them, since no one had taken the time and effort so far to describe them so thoroughly. And since at the time of writing religion was taken much more seriously by many more people than it is today, it was foreseeable that this work would have a great impact before writing it. That's where I think the real genius by Dante is, in knowing it was going to be a work to be studied for so many people forever, that he used it as a way to criticize and attack people from his time, presenting them as sinners, as well as presenting himself as such a pure being that was allowed to be taken to God's presence while he was still not dead. In this maneuver of propaganda he was self proclaiming himself as a kind of heavenly creature brought to earth, whose biggest sin is at some point to be too innocent to don't understand some intricacies of Heaven and Hell, as well as presenting his (I guess) enemies in life as the worst sinners (what a coincidence that half of Hell is filled with florentines he knew from his lifetime, although people from all eras and all places should be there). I think this was his master move, that thanks to his book he remains like a heavenly hero in the collective unconscious, more than like yet another poet from the ancient times, and his rivals as the worst and most worthless sinners in history. And there is nothing they could do about it, since the only proper reply would require them to write a similar book countering the comedy. Apparently some of the ones mentioned were already dead at the time of writing, some others were still alive. But as for the actual philosophical content in the book, or actual new knowledge, I would say there is nothing there. Just beautiful, creative, and obscure at times, metaphors to hide the lack of substance, and repeating the core concepts of Christianity with his personal touch. I found nice and interesting the brevity with which he describes God at the end of the book. But yeah, anyway, nice lecture. Ok, now you guys can start insulting me.
@mr.kyoryu68283 жыл бұрын
I hear you brother! Feel the same way! You write brilliantly!
@butterfly44283 жыл бұрын
I totally understand your perception but I must have read the book with different lenses that day
@rikyrossi95182 жыл бұрын
You missed a thing...he himself invented italian let's say in the "De vulgari eloquentia" you can really tell that he is researching for the best dialect in all italy and so on and on so he and Manzoni are the two people that "created italian" and they were not wrong. I want to give to you a little curiosity...Manzoni used instead of the "giovani" used today in italian he believed that the correct form will be "giovine" it's a staggering one error in all the "promessi sposi".
@simoncharacter012 жыл бұрын
this is good.
@lindavanderbaan34882 жыл бұрын
Hoping that after a year you may have discovered a more accessible, less verbose translation to read. Too many translators (and scholars) are distracted with their own voices. I recommend the Singleton translation in English. It is in plain language and does not attempt to rhyme. I notice from your KZbin site that Spanish may be your heart's language - there are Spanish translations, but I can't recommend one over another. An audible version in Italian may suit you, as well. Best wishes.
@peggingbatman3 жыл бұрын
uh
@jamesrobinson28543 жыл бұрын
Inconceivable!
@PlayNiceFolks3 жыл бұрын
I found the work utterly useless, didn't get too far. So I guess, this is for me.