About the Course

This self-paced course taught by Professor Frank Ambrosio, will help students know themselves in their own historical, personal, and spiritual contexts as they journey toward a richer understanding of their freedom, identity and responsibility as a person.

Inferno

At the beginning, Dante encounters the universal experience you may already be familiar with—that dizzying length of time when you find yourself lost and unable to find the right path. Dante's descent into hell leads to the point of Dante's conversion when he recognizes his need for forgiveness.

Purgatorio

For those willing to undertake the steep ascent of Dante’s seven-story Mountain, nowhere in the legacy of human culture is the process of becoming a “whole person” more closely observed or rendered with deeper psychological and social insight than in the cantos of Dante’s Purgatorio.

Paradiso

Now leaving Earth behind and beneath, the Pilgrim is transformed into the disciple; specifically, the disciple of Beatrice. She now becomes his true path, la diritta via, along which he gradually discovers the Joy that Christianity identifies as the hope of Resurrection.