The Divine Comedy is one of the most influential works in history, shaping much of modern Italian language and culture, and serving as the inspiration for countless other works. This is because Dante Alighieri's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven mirrors an internal journey that is taken by all. This look at all three books of the Divine Comedy, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, will explore the psychological and spiritual symbolism in the structure of this masterpiece of the Renaissance.
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The purpose of this channel is to share the important stories at the foundation of human cultures throughout history. These include mythology, legends, folktales, religious stories, and parables from the dawn of history to the modern day. This channel provides interpretations and insight into these stories, to find and apply their meaning to contemporary life. All stories covered are treated academically. This channel makes no claims regarding the historical, scientific, or religious truth of these tales. Rather, its goal is to find the meanings understood by their authors and apply them to the modern world.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:03 Inferno I by Gustave Doré
00:15 Divine Comedy Manuscript, circa 1911
00:49 Dante Running From the Three Beasts by William Blake
01:36 Bust of Virgil, First Century Rome
01:50 Inferno I by Gustave Doré
02:37 The Depths of Inferno
02:42 Portrait of Dante by Ilya Repin
03:11 Beatrice by Marie Spartali Stillman
03:22 Inferno II by Gustave Doré
03:33 The Inscription Over Hell-Gate by William Blake
04:07 Inferno, Canto III
04:39 Map of Hell by Sandro Botticelli
05:20 The Circle of the Lustful by William Blake
05:45 Inferno V by Gustave Doré
06:03 The Kiss by Auguste Rodin
06:33 Dante Meditating on the Divine Comedy by Jean-Jacques Feuchère
07:13 Inferno XXXIV by Gustave Doré
08:08 Inferno V by Gustave Doré
08:28 Lucifer by William Blake
08:53 Inferno XXXIV by Gustave Doré
09:33 Climbing Purgatorio
09:37 Divine Comedy Manuscript, circa 1390
10:14 Purgatorio, Canto IV
10:53 Dante and His Poem by Domenico de Michelino
11:25 Dante, Guided by Virgil, Consoles the Souls of the Envious by Hippolyte Flandrin
11:58 Purgatorio XII by Gustave Doré
12:16 Allegorical Portrait of Dante, Sixteenth Century
12:35 Dante and Beatrice on the Banks of the Lethe by Cristóbal Rojas
13:23 Dante and Beatrice by Ary Scheffer
13:55 Dantis Amor by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
14:07 Purgatorio XXXI by Gustave Doré
14:37 Paradiso XXVIII by John Flaxman
14:57 The Heights of Paradiso
15:01 The Ordering of Paradise by Michelangelo Caetani
15:39 Moon by Galileo
16:07 Divine Comedy Manuscript, Fifteenth Century
16:34 Paradiso XXVIII by Gustave Doré
18:05 Beatrice by Odilion Redon
18:25 Paradiso, Canto XXX
18:38 Dante in the Empyrean Drinking the River of Light by William Blake
19:25 Paradiso XXXI by Gustave Doré
20:21 Conclusion: The Journey Within
20:25 Dante Alighieri by Luca Signorelli
20:49 The Ordering of the Divine Comedy by Michelangelo Caetani
21:00 The Mission of Virgil by William Blake
21:44 Purgatorio I by Gustave Doré
22:15 Dante by William Herbert Allen
23:28 Outro
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