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Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia

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In this Wednesday, April 8, 2026 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang introduces the Divine Comedy, humanity's greatest literary work. Notes and References: 1. Dante's "Divine Comedy" translated by Alan Mandelbaum: https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/

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@arnoldbomber9152 2026-04-08

The Professor spoiling us with multiple lectures this week

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@natscrest97 2026-04-08

This is the first thing I see upon opening YouTube. What a glorious day!

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@Daguerreotype-z7l 2026-04-08

These are the actual most important lectures by him and it's unfortunate that most people abuse his speculative lectures and stay lazy and take his speculative lectures as facts and ultimately misinterpret or reduce his words into "ooooh see? he said this and that, let's put his words in our worlds where it wouldn't make sense". I really hope you get to make more lectures about the great books. Thank you.

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@XDRenegade. 2026-04-08

My left ear enjoyed this thoroughly

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@irismurray2428 2026-04-08

74 year old student here professor- thank you and thank you to your young students I read your comments too

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@BlackIntellectuals 2026-04-08

By far the best thing that happened for social media this year for sure

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@MomoMama-e4d 2026-04-08

If this guy is not a professor, then the term {Professor} must be redefined. God bless you sir (even tho I'm not religious).

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@nullnull293 2026-04-08

As an Italian, this lesson puts a smile on my face

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@melinadoria4208 2026-04-08

Italian here: THANK YOU Professor! This was WAY Better than all of my school lessons on the topic of some years ago….. much appreciation and respect from Italy too:) 🙏🏻

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@pmarnoze8321 2026-04-08

The actual structure of the video is genius, that’s why people must’ve freaked out about you not being an actual professor, the videos are genius

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