Teaching the Comedy

Recapturing the delight in Dante’s vision

A Webinar with Joe Carlson

Have you struggled with teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy to your students? Or helping them delight in its epic beauty and grandeur? Or maybe you have had a hard time delighting in it yourself?

In this webinar, translator and author of the Dante Curriculum Joe Carlson will be discussing how to delight in the Comedy, how to avoid common pitfalls (so many names!!), and how to foster a deep appreciation for the rich and profoundly Christian vision of the world it presents.

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The Dante Curriculum

The Translation

A blank verse translation by Joe Carlson.

More about the Translation

Listen to the Preface to Inferno, which includes notes about the translation and comparisons to other popular translations, or scroll down for The Dante Sampler – an extended preview of the curriculum.

The Reader Guides

Dante’s Divine Comedy Reader Guides

Teaching Tools

Teaching Resources

Text Bundles

Dante’s Divine Comedy Bundles

The Divine Comedy Audiobooks

Coming soon directly from Roman Roads Press, and currently included as part of the Add-on for the Great Books Challenge and on Audible. Read by the translator, Joe Carlson.

Available on Audible:

Canto 1 sample

Artwork

Articles by Joe Carlson

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