Forever Learning Institute

A seminar devoted to Dante’s poem, a masterwork of late-medieval Christianity. We will follow the Pilgrim’s journey through the the three realms of the afterlife, with an emphasis on Purgatory and Paradise, and explore the contexts – autobiographical, psychological, philosophical, theological, moral – that have made the poem so life-changing for so many. We will use the three volume paperback Mandelbaum translation published in Bantam Classics, with Italian on the facing page; inexpensive and handy.