Inferno, Canto 22 with Dr. Alessandro Andreini

Dr. Alessandro Andreini of the Gonzaga-in-Florence program guides us through Canto 22 of the Inferno.
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[@ancanemoianu7773]

So good to hear a bit of Italian, Dante's language, for a change. Just listen to Dr. Andreini's list of devils! Thank you.

[@bethbilynskyj162]

I've always thought Italian is the only language that is sung when one speaks it.

[@penelopegough6050]

Hearing the devil’s names in Italian spoken by you…..priceless. Thank you.

[@elizabethbrink3761]

Poor Dante! The Italian politics of the time sound stressful, to say the least! It's helpful to have this background. I love Dr. Andreini's point at the end that we can follow Dante's example in having courage to face the tough things in life and that humor is a good tool to use. It's a good reminder that this is the Divine Comedy (v. tragedy).

[@lorimorrison6539]

Thank you for your beautiful and exquisite teaching! I loved the Italian. What a beautiful language!

[@tgold3311]

Only the last minute provided the best of the professor's commentary.

[@soft1057]

The corrupt politicians at that low level, are well and alive in Latin America today. I can relate some cantos to those people (Daniel and Rosario come to mind)

[@mariebelcredi2206]

Oh I love the Italian. What music!!

[@patcamerino5456]

Nothing to add to the summary I wrote previously for cantos 21 and 22. (And yes, I preferred Dr. Moran to Dr. Andreini for the summary, even if he speaks marvelous Italian.)

[@adyshih]

You have delivered a great concluding thought and I like the final two reflection and application, thank you.

[@mikemtgy]

Italian is such a beautiful language.

[@ieatbookz]

I am wholely convinced that this man is a vampire

[@victoriasouza6692]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@NiallMor]

Any thoughts on why Dante might have placed political graft and grafters lower in Hell than simony and simoniacs? (Canto 19). This puzzles me. One might think that simony (buying and selling religious offices and spiritual things for financial gain) might be a worse sin than plain old political graft for earthly power and advantages, but Dante doesn't seem to think so. Any idea why?

[@billhagen5050]

It may well be that Dante’s own involvement in city politics and his hope, referenced in other writings, for an alliance or even unification of the Italian city states biased him. Certainly he has more references to the suffering and the devastation caused by political divisions within and between the cities than to damage caused by church corruption.

[@xieouyang1341]

I thought that it was because those impactpeople more directly and immediately

[@tomlabooks3263]

@@xieouyang1341 Yes. He always had the impact on the political body (society) in mind. I am Italian and I’m doing a canto by canto analysis on my channel, if you are interested.

[@Tolstoy111]

Had trouble staying awake through this presentation.

[@xieouyang1341]

You should watch it again then. He makes a lot of good points and traces the Canto very well.
I enjoyed his reading in the Italian.

[@cynthiaford6976]

It seems to me as if that animal imagery must've meant something very different 700 years ago. None of the animals are those we are disgusted or afraid of, like rats, snakes etc. What did those images mean in Dante's time? In the 21st century of cat videos and fat bear cams in Alaska, our perception of what animals mean seems like it must be very different.
I also wonder if all those rapscallion demons are actually allegorically part of the topography of our own souls, if the Comedy is read as a journey through our selves, and that there's a dynamic there that we might recognize?

[@serenan2d]

2:02

[@rogerball7040]

Could not finish listening. Cannot understand.

[@treborketorm]

Presentation less than optimal... difficult to understand. Disappointing.

[@NiallMor]

The auto-generated subtitles helped me understand some of it, but they are not always accurate.

[@jennifermelton9598]

Cussing Granny FTW!!
Could not understand this guy

[@maryufnar202]

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