Dante’s Paradiso

Fabian Alfie
Fall 2016
WEDNESDAYS |  
1:00 p.m.. to 4:00 p.m.
October 26 - November 16, 2016.
Course Format: Hybrid
Location: Main Campus
Tuition: $120.00

This class deals with the climax of Dante’s Divine Comedy. While Inferno depicts sin and evil, and Purgatorio portrays redemption, Paradiso illustrates the possibility of transcendence. Not only does a blessed soul understand the transcendent universe, but that person also transcends her or his fallen human nature. Using a facing-page translation, in this seminar we will cover the numerous historical personages and references in the work, and discuss its cosmological and theological basis. Dante’s Paradiso is the culmination of the Comedy, illustrating the perfect nature of the universe, as driven by “the love that moves the sun and other stars.”

Required Reading

Dante. Paradiso. Trans. Robert and Jean Hollander. Anchor, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-1400031153.

Meet Your Instructor

Professor

FABIAN ALFIE is a Professor of Italian at the University of Arizona. His specialization is in Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published extensively on medieval Italian literature and has taught courses on Dante, Boccaccio, and the “dolce stil nuovo” for HSP. He has received two Superior Teaching Awards from the Humanities Seminars Program.

Location

POETRY CENTER
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States

Located on the SE corner of Helen Street and Vine Avenue, one block north of Speedway and three blocks west of Campbell Ave.

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