Divine Comedy

and pervert its meaning, you get the concept of hell.

This picture down here, this is a picture of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.

Satan's in the bottom level of hell.

Well, he's not burning, is he? No, it's a tundra.

How the places we seek to visit in Florence are symbolic of a time in history that was a cultural flowering of sorts, and that in truth the word Renaissance was coined many centuries later, and is a French word describing rebirth and reinvention.

When Dante was in the middle of writing The Divine Comedy, Angiotto was designing the cathedral's beautiful Campanile, the bell tower in the heart of Florence.

It was the very beginning of a new era that paved the way for Western art, philosophy, science, and much more.

And so I will weave in details around this when I speak to the cultural institutions you can enjoy while in Florence, or if not a history buff or art lover, you can just enjoy the beauty of the medieval city.

It took me a little longer to figure out what Dis Observes might have meant, and I thought that it might have been a name, but a little later I found this about a place called Dis.

In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, the city of Dis encompasses the sixth through the ninth circles of hell.

Moted by the river Styx, the fortified city encloses the whole of Lower or Nether Hell.

And I've seen a lot on this job.

Well, let's just put it non-dogmatic writings like the Purgatorio by Dante.

Really, the whole Divine Comedy is predicated upon that, especially in the case of the Purgatorio and the Inferno, that the punishments are... related to the kinds of sins that somebody committed in this life.

So that motif of being sequestered in particular areas based upon the kind of sin that you committed, although that's not necessarily from divine revelation, it's reflected in writings like Dante's.

So perhaps that's where some of what she was referring to would tie in, you know.

I've had a lot of reading this week, but I've finished nothing, so bear with me, everyone.

I'm still working on The Divine Comedy.

I finally made it out of hell.

We are out of Dante's actual inferno.

Even so, I still don't think that they'd be okay with us talking about fanfic that people have written about their Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

And yet the Divine Comedy is

held in such high regard.

Anyway, moving on from Jesus, back to Looney Tunes porn.

To my knowledge.

That's probably why it's acceptable.

I've not read The Divine Comedy.

That is probably why it's acceptable.

Maybe there's an elite group of students within these campuses that still read great books, but the thing to remember, okay, and this is hard, is that all the great poets, were first and foremost, Democrats.

Okay? Why did Dante write the Divine Comedy in the vernacular? Because he wanted to spread the truth to everyone.

Okay, so these poets were prophets who were also revolutionaries.

They felt that what was stunting human growth, what was destroying innovation in society was the fact that you had an elite that monopolized knowledge and literacy.