First Parish Church Event

Adult Ed - Dante's Inferno

Meet with Tom Wintle

Wednesday, March 30, 2005
7:00 PM, Library
-   Reading and Discussion of Cantos 4 (Limbo) & 5 (Lust)

Abstract

DANTE'S INFERNO
Adult Ed at First Parish Church in Weston Spring 2005*

Robert Pinsky translation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996)
Mark Musa translation (Penguin Classics, 1971, 2002)
Dorothy Sayers translation (Penguin Classics, 1949, 1973)

On the web:
1. Quick summary & links for free online editions: http://sites.micro-link.net/zekscrab/Dante.html
2. University study guide: novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/eng251/dante.html
3. The entire Cliff's Notes(!): http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-77.html

Vestibule The Uncommitted Canto 3
1st level LIMBO Canto 4
2nd LUST Canto 5
3 GLUTTONOUS Canto 6
4 MISERS & SPENDTHRIFTS Canto 7
5 WRATHFUL & SLOTHFUL "
to City of Dis Canto 8-9
6 HERETICS Cantos 10-11
7 VIOLENT
- against neighbors
- against themselves
- against God, nature, art Cantos 12-17
8 FRAUDULENT
- panderers/seducers
- flatterers
- simonists
- soothsayers 20
- grafters 21f
- hypocrites 23
- thieves 24
- deceivers 26
- sowers of discord 28
- falsifiers 29 Cantos 18-29
9 TRAITORS Cantos 31-

*WEDNESDAYS (7:00pm to 8:30pm)

March 23, 30
April 13
May 11, 18, 25