Dante's Divine Comedy

I invite you to experience the odyssey, by accompanying me as I discuss each canto. My book, Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide For The Spiritual Journey, is published by Angelico Press for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death on 13th September 2021. For more information see - www.markvernon.com

Dante's Divine Comedy is a religion podcast hosted by Mark Vernon, with 144 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 83. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mark Vernon hosts Dante's Divine Comedy, a religion show with 144 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  Dante's Divine Comedy

  Pimps, remorse and blood. Dante's Divine Comedy and the critique of the Papacy

  May 4, 202548 minS0

  <p>Dante encounters seven popes in the Divine Comedy, five in hell, one in purgatory and one in paradise - that last being Saint Peter. His condemnation of individual popes and, I think, the papacy is extraordinarily strong and discomforting to relate. <br/><br/>But was it all revenge? Did he fall for the politics too? Or was his message one of renewal, revival and reunion with God?<br/><br/>Dante was concerned about salvation, the role of women and friars, the love of the gospel, and the fate of Christianity. His critique presages the Reformation. His vision matters today.<b...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Dante's Divine Comedy

  The way down is the way up. Dante on how to live in turbulent times. Lessons from The Divine Comedy

  Mar 11, 20256 minS0

  <p>This talk was first given to Idler Drinks.</p><p>For more on Mark's work on Dante - https://www.markvernon.com/dantes-divine-comedy</p>

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Dante's Divine Comedy

  Is hell forever? The Inferno. Jason Baxter & Mark Vernon on Dante’s film noir

  Oct 4, 20241 hourS0

  <p>“Circles of hell" has become commonplace in language. But what was Dante trying to show us when he wrote the inferno? What has been lost in translation, with this first canticle in Dante’s trilogy now part of a secular culture?<br/><br/>Jason Baxter talks about his new translation of the Inferno with Mark Vernon. They discuss what Dante could convey in language and why the text never ceases to offer fresh insights. How can we understand his encounters with figures from Virgil to Ulysses? What is it truly to be trapped in a hellish state? Why is the...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Dante's Divine Comedy

  Is hell really boring? Rowan Williams & Jesse Armstrong, Dante & William Blake

  Jul 11, 202433 minS0

  <p>Rowan Williams and Jesse Armstrong talked at The Idler festival, partly around the idea, caught in the expression, “boring as hell”. But is that right, they asked, when a drama like Succession so clearly appeals to us?<br/><br/>The question is fundamental, for an age inclined to regard hell as appealing or intriguing, is one on the way to being lost. <br/><br/>Drawing on Dante and William Blake, two great diagnostic writers about different states of mind, this talk explores how the passions of the soul, to use Williams’s expression, can hinder and help us on our way...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Dante's Divine Comedy

  Dante and civilisational decline. A dispatch on disillusionment in politics

  Jun 13, 202415 minS0

  <p>Dante lived through a period of almost total social collapse. Civil war and city-state terror, practiced by the church as much as secular powers, drove him into exile for the last 20 years of his life. For a while, he lost everything. But then, through the trauma, he regained a ground and rediscovered the fullness of life.<br/><br/>The Divine Comedy is the product of that transformation. The journeys through hell, purgatory and paradise hold nothing back, be that terrible tortures of extraordinary delights. He wrote for himself, for his readers including us, but also as a warning to...

  ListenShow Notes

Recent guests on Dante's Divine Comedy. Study who booked and why before you pitch.

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.