Dante's Divine comedy

Part 1. 1. Reading the poem : issues and editions

2. A poet and his city : Dante's Florence

3. Literary antecedents I

4. Literary antecedents II

5. "Abandon every hope, all you who enter"

6. The never-ending storm

7. Heretics

8. The seventh circle : the violent

9. The sin of simony

10. The false counselors

11. The ultimate evil

12. The seven-story mountain

Part 2. 13. Purgatory's waiting room

14. The sin of pride

15. The vision to freedom

16. Homage to Virgil

17. Dante's new guide

18. Ascending the spheres

19. An emperor speaks

20. The circle of the sun : saints and sages

21. A mission revealed : encounter with an ancestor

22. Can a pagan be saved

23. Faith, hope, love, and the mystic empyrean

24. "In my end is my beginning."