Towards Lucifer's Icy Lair - Fraud and Treachery in Inferno XXIII-XXXIV

Join us in reading and discussing the Divine Comedy by Dante

During this session we will be discussing Inferno, Cantos XXIII-XXXIV which will take us through the circles of fraud and treachery and into Lucifer's Icy Lair.

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We strongly recommend that you read the book with us--you will get the most value from these Meetups if you do so. But, you are welcome even if you have not read the book.

For those of you joining us in the reading, you may read or listen to any translation you want. Here are two free translations available as text or audio books:
● Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867): a very faithful translation:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy_(Longfellow_1867)
LibriVox audio recording: https://librivox.org/the-new-life-la-vita-nuova-by-dante-alighieri/
● Courtney Langdon (1918): in blank verse:
https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/alighieri-the-divine-comedy-in-3-vols-langdon-trans
LibvriVox audio recording: https://librivox.org/the-divine-comedy-version-2-dramatic-reading-by-dante-alighieri/

Here is a more modern translation from the Princeton Dante Project (Robert and Jean Hollander, 2000-2007): https://dante.princeton.edu/pdp/

Event Format:

1. Introduction to the material by Rosella, Doug & Phil
2. Those who are reading the book get to share their thoughts about the assigned reading for that Meetup (see schedule below)
3. Breakout rooms with 6-8 people each
4. Takeaways and go around: Everybody can comment
5. General discussion

Schedule:
6 Jan: Celebrate 700 Years of Dante
7 Feb: the Vita Nuova
7 Mar: Inferno 1-11
4 Apr: Inferno 12-22
2 May: Inferno 23-34
6 Jun: Purgatorio 1-11
11 Jul: Purgatorio 12-22
8 Aug: Purgatorio 23-33
12 Sep: Paradiso 1-11
10 Oct: Paradiso 12-22
7 Nov: Paradiso 22-33
5 Dec: Grand Finale: Reflecting on Dante's 7th Centennial

Watch videos of our past Dante events at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2d4LDzThvjh-6DctJ0xGZGA

This 19 minute video introduction to Dante by Giuseppe Mazzotta is very good: http://y2u.be/679FGDpZBew

CJ Fearnley's "Reading Dante in 2021" page
https://www.cjfearnley.com/Dante2021.html

52 Living Ideas will record this event and post it to YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer.