Word: divina
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...delivered the last and culminating lecture, under the William Belden Noble foundation, on "Dante's Verdict on Life: Its Significance and Value," last evening in New Lecture Hall. In this final lecture, Bishop Boyd-Carpenter summed up with deep impressiveness and remarkable clearness the essence and significance of the "Divina Commoedia" in "The Message of Dante...
...pervading principle throughout the "Divina Commoedia" is the personal revelation which it signifies in the personal experiences of Dante. At the very outset, Dante is shown that he cannot take the direct route he had chosen, towards the light of God, because of the obstacles he had created through his own sin. Beatrice, later, reproaches him for losing his brilliant ideal, at her death, and falling into sin, such that he can find Heaven only through Hell. One of the great motifs of the poem lies in this fall of Dante, under the pressure of circumstances, from a high spiritual...
...clock. The particular subject of Bishop Boyd-Carpenter's last lecture will be "The Message of Dante." In the first five lectures, Bishop Boyd-Carpenter treated successively the life of Dante, the influences in his life, and the drama of the soul as pictured in the "Divina Commoedia." In the final lecture, the great significance of the whole will be summed up in Dante's message to mankind. The lecture will be open to the public...