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

Not every person in the world will understand that

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

“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.

Incredibile ! Nessuno interessa la nascita del Risorgimento.

The best introduction to "La Commedia" I ever heard.

Couldn't help but notice that his jacket is two sizes bigger than it has to be.

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Interesting, but the sound quality is lacking,

John 14:21

Great lecture, but one minor revision: it is Cato the Younger that Dante encounters at the beginning of Purgatorio rather than Cato the Elder.

awesome introduction! I feel a lot more confident now to start reading

The Divine Comedy is the best example of world building I've read or watched, hands down

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.

I prefer The Decameron.

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.

'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...'

What does the second book of maccabees have to do with Muslims???

This is a genius lecture on Dante, thanks 🙏

It's not Dante, but still pretty good m.kzbin.info/aero/PLiCoO2FHdEP5KH-BbbChTiGFOaY_bVNmh

Superb.

A tremendous lecture with brilliant content and delivery

Excellent lecture

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.

Everyone needs to know this

This guy isn't worthy of carrying Mark Vernon's jockstrap.

what an amazing talk, able to speak of this within the cultural context that it was written

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.

Very nice awsome😇🤑🤑

47B.C... and they call themselves atheists 🖕😎👎

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 💗🙏🏼💫☯️🍀

Bravo 👏

Love this guy's passion and clarity of thought. Bravo.

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.

3:15 🥵

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.

"Journeying up the seven story mountain... that by the way, Dante largely invented." FYI purgatory is invented.

Lecture starts at 3:11

Watch ,,.,THE LADY OF HEAVEN Movie trailer 🎬👌,,, and thank you

Great, but can't people speak like normal people, is Cook on amphetamines?

Excellent, thanks.

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

Such a great introduction, I can't wait to hear myself speak. Well, his talk is great.

religious brainwashing mumbo jumbo 👎👎

The panicky patient gully identify because road explicitly snow within a lacking myanmar. slim, coordinated layer

Just liked this video as the 666th person

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.

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Inconceivable!

I found the work utterly useless, didn't get too far. So I guess, this is for me.