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The Dissenter · 2026-04-30 · 65 min · 8,417 words

#1247 Zygmunt Baranski: Dante's Divine Comedy

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Zygmunt Berensky. He is Emeritus R. L.

Canala Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame and also Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. And today we're going to focus a lot on Dante and his divine comedy or comedy as we're going to get into. So Zig, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you on.

Thank you, Ricardo. It's uh, you know, it's a pleasure and also it's an intriguing, you know, to be with you, but it's also an intriguing experience, I'll be honest with you. Okay, so let's get into it. So I I mean as I re as I've already made a reference or alluded to in my introduction. Uh it seems that the original title of Dentis Divine Comedy was not exactly the divine comedy, right?

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