Course No. 287 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by William R. Cook, Ronald B. Herzman 1. Reading the Poem—Issues and Editions 2. A Poet and His City—Dante's Florence 3. Literary Antecedents, I 4. Literary Antecedents, II 5. “Abandon Every Hope, All You Who Enter” 6. The Never-Ending Storm 7. Heretics 8. The Seventh Circle—The Violent 9. The Sin of Simony 10. The False Counselors 11. The Ultimate Evil 12. The Seven-Story Mountain 13. Purgatory's Waiting Room 14. The Sin of Pride 15. The Vision to Freedom 16. Homage to Virgil 17. Dante's New Guide 18. Ascending the Spheres 19. An Emperor Speaks 20. The Circle of the Sun—Saints and Sages 21. A Mission Revealed—Encounter with an Ancestor 22. Can a Pagan Be Saved? 23. Faith, Hope, Love, and the Mystic Empyrean 24. "In My End Is My Beginning"