Welcome to the Book Club, I'm Michael Knowles and this month we will be reading

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alleghieri Inferno, Poragatorio, Paradeso, Porgoeo, Paradizo, my absolute favorite, not just poem, not just book, my favorite work of art.

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It is very fitting, I think, that as we go through my absolute favorite work of art ever composed. We will do that with one of my

dearest friends, the Dante scholar, Catherine Illingworth. Catherine, thank you for

joining. Thank you for having me, thrilled to be here.

So we've only got a little bit to go through today.

We've only got about, what is it, 1500 pages or so?

Yes, 14,000 lines of poetry.

Okay, great.

In this brief period that we have,

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