What’s the significance of the dark wood?
Brent and Jennifer Holberg continue their discussion of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ with a look at ‘Inferno’.   
Jennifer is professor and chair of the English Department at Calvin University in the States and co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing.  She’s also the author of the book ‘Nourishing Narratives’.  

(2:00) The narrator and the opening;
(4:10) The dark wood;
(5:00) Epic;
(6:30) The 3 beasts;
(8:45) Virgil;
(11:30) Canto 9;
(13:10) Beatrice;
(17:10) The structure of Hell;
(21:45) Sin;
(23:10) Dante’s sin issue;
(26:40) Some of the famous sinners; popes in Hell;
(30:10) Moments of hope.

Links mentioned in this episode:
World of Dante:
https://www.worldofdante.org/index.html)
Digital Dante:
https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy
Dante Worlds:
https://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/
100 Days of Dante:
https://100daysofdante.com
Editions:
For all in one volume:
Mark Musa, ‘The Portable Dante’ (Penguin)
First rate notes:
Robert and Jean Hollander (Vintage/Anchor)
New poetic translation that retains the terza rima:
Michael Palma (Liveright)
Prose translation:
Charles S. Singleton (Princeton University Press)
Other notable translators:
Robin Kirkpatrick
John Ciarda
Allen Mandelbaum
Older translations by Dorothy L. Sayers
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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