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.
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Dante’s Inferno$21.95
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Dante’s Purgatorio$21.95
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Dante’s Paradiso$21.95
The Reader Guides
Dante’s Divine Comedy Reader Guides
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Inferno: Reader’s Guide$18.95
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Purgatorio: Reader’s Guide$18.95
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Paradiso: Reader’s Guide$18.95
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
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Dante’s Inferno Poster$12.00 – $24.00
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Dante’s Purgatorio Poster$12.00 – $24.00
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Dante’s Paradiso Poster$12.00 – $24.00
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Dante’s Inferno – Framed Poster$37.59 – $71.14
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Dante’s Paradiso – Framed Poster$37.59 – $71.14
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Dante’s Purgatorio – Framed Poster$37.59 – $71.14
Articles by Joe Carlson
- Just the Inferno?
- Three Reasons Every High School Student Should Study Dante
- The Centrality of Christ
- Nostra Vita – Joe Carlson
- Four Reasons to Read Dante in 2023
- Dante and the Nature of Sanctification
- Dante, Protestant
- An Intro to Dante, by Dante
- Hell is Obscene