Episode 21 - Dante's Letter to his Patron della Scala, and arriving at Mars, Sphere of Warriors.

Ancient World

English - October 22, 2019 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MB - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 20 - Final part of Venus, and summary of Canto 1-9. Dante is passionate about Florence and the Church!

Next Episode: Episode 22 - Dante meets his Ancestry, through Cacciaguida, and learns how Florence has changed. Canto XV.

In this episode we'll go briefly through the first five levels of Angelical Beings, talk about two key points from Dante's letter to his Patron Can Grande della Scala of Verona, and have a look at the entrance and first experiences in the Sphere of Mars!

The mood is changing in deep ways after the lower three spheres, and after the Sphere of Knowledge (from September), we are now arriving at the Sphere of Warriors in Canto 14. In this heaven the music is becoming more important as a source of beauty, and as the language of the Divine.

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