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According to Dante Alighieri, none of us can salve the wound in our souls without undertaking our own pilgrimage to hell, without purging our sins and without letting go of ourselves such as to experience ecstatic union with the foundations of all reality. This is perhaps what James Joyce meant when he said that Dante is his spiritual food and that reading Dante is like looking at the sun. This course will unfold some of the philosophical, poetic, religious, political and historical richness of Dantes allegorical masterpiece and lead each student on our personal journey through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.