International Institute for Culture

 

MEETING DANTE’S FINAL GUIDE: MARY THE MOTHER OF GOD IN PARADISO 33


 
TIME:
 
May 17, 2018    7:00 PM       
 
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
 
The next presentation in an on-going monthly series on the Great Books and the Catholic Liberal Arts.  
 
“Meeting Dante’s Final Guide” is an extended explication of the opening lines of the very last canto of Dante’s great poem. La Divina Commedia presents a personal and poetic, religious and political, literal and allegorical, vision of the afterlife.  
 
The speaker: Stephen C. Córdova is the Latin instructor at Martin Saints Classical High School. A veteran of teaching in the Liberal Arts, he brings a lively and passionate approach to ancient and mediaeval texts. 
 
Light refreshments will be served after the talk.  
 

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