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Weekend Updates!
Goooood morning!!😊🌇☕️☕️ It’s been a great week on many fronts here, both with receiving a super beautiful new paperback of “The Portable Dante” from Penguin – and for many other projects too! Here is the moment of unboxing the book … Continue reading
Posted in Dante, Misc
Tagged Aristotle, dante, good life, good things, virtues, weekly summary
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Morning Show, August 5th!
Good morning! 🌇☀️☕️ We’re back with a little Morning Show, an indoor-Lyceum as the weather is cold, rainy and stormy today! Main topics today is Dante’s Vita Nuova, the latest video from Mythos & Logos, updates on the Website (especially … Continue reading
Posted in Misc
Tagged august, beauty, dante, dreams, DT Sheffler, good life, growing writer, love, morning show, mythos & logos, vita nuova, youth
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Dante’s Vita Nuova!
After a full year of podcasting the Divine Comedy, we’ve now started on an earlier work of Dante – the “Vita Nuova” (New Life/Young Life)! And in the very opening chapters – Dante is describing the vision that came to … Continue reading
Lyceum, July 29th
Today the topics of our Nature Ramblings are all from the Book of Purgatory – about the Mercy of the Divine, bridging Science and Reason with the Spiritual, and the massive arrival of Beatrice in chapter 30, which is also … Continue reading
Lyceum, July 28th
Nature ramblings about the Comedy and the limitations of the Greek Tradition, in Dante’s view!
..once again, to see the stars!
We’ve just finished the last episode of the whole Divine Comedy (Starting with the Paradiso) – to be released next Saturday, August the 1st at 10am UK time! 🎇 ..the First Journey is done. And the Guiding Lights are shining … Continue reading
Posted in Dante, Inferno
Tagged comedy, dante, episode, finished, journey, podcast, Sunday, the comedy, the pilgrim, virgil
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End of Circle 8, and a Bright Point!
We’ve just finished making Episode 30 (Out Monday July 27th!), which marks the end of the Tenth Valley and the Circle of Fraud! And as the Middle of Circle 8 in many ways describes the Heart of Fraud, swarming with … Continue reading
Posted in Dante, Inferno
Tagged circle 8, dante, discovery, end point, forgiveness, learning, look forward, regret, solutions
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Gates of Dis, as limitations of Reason
Today we had another great conversation about the deeper significance of the Gates of Dis, and the rejection of the futile efforts of Virgil to open them, as Reason. On a Journey into the deep and into Knowledge as well … Continue reading
Posted in Dante, Inferno
Tagged balance, dante, gates of dis, good forces, harmony, journey, learning, life, reason
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Guido da Montefeltro
Good morning!! ☀️🌇☕️ Today we’ve made an episode about the Guido da Montefeltro, Lord of Urbino, and later Franciscan Monk and advisor to Pope Boniface VIII. For which, Minos in the Underworld sends him straight to the Eight Circle and … Continue reading
Posted in Dante, Inferno
Tagged 12 hundreds, dante, history, italy, montefeltro, ravenna, urbino
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The Ιλιάδ
The Epic opening of the Iliad: Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus — that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero … Continue reading
Posted in Greek Myth
Tagged achilles, canto26, dante, epic, greece, homer, iliad, literature, troy, Ιλιάδ
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Inferno 26 – Ulysses and Hubris
This morning we’ve just finished making Episode 26 on the Podcast – out next Wednesday July the 22nd- which is a deep dive into Dante’s own psyche and his relationship to his own work and writings! At the deep of … Continue reading
Posted in Dante, Inferno
Tagged beauty, dante, greek myth, hubris, icarus, learning, valley eight
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Dante Seminar
Thanks to everyone for a great Seminar on the first half of Inferno this weekend! Especially the thoughts on what happens at the Gates of the City of Dis added several new ideas and perspectives to the symbolic understanding of … Continue reading
Inferno – Episode 17 and Geryon!
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Confirmation of the Rule, by Ghirlandaio
This painting in the Sassetti Chapel in Santa Trinita in Florence is a very important and historical one – showing Florence and the Medici Family symbolically replacing Rome as the main City of Culture and Glory at the time! Confirmation … Continue reading
Posted in Renaissance
Tagged art, beauty, botticelli, firenze, florence, ghirlandaio, lorenzo, michelangelo, renaissance, sassetti
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The foundation for Dante – Philosophy, Poetry, History!
New episode out June 5th, at 10am UK time! 😄😄 After the first 3 chapters as a sort of a preamble, the 4th chapter is about the big areas and world of traditions and heritage for Dante – with the … Continue reading