Tom LA Books | PARADISO XV Commentary with Giulia Maria Wilkins @tomlabooks3263 | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Giulia Maria Wilkins is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Romances Languages and Literatures Italian of Boston College, on her way to her PhD.

Canto XV of Dante’s Paradiso - commentary.

Heaven of the Mars. Meeting with Cacciaguida.

00:00 Canto XV Introduction
05:26 Overview - concept of nobility
11:40 First Tercets
18:51 Verses 20 - 30
23:57 Beatrice's Eyes
30:06 Cacciaguida
31:35 Old Florence
35:58 Verses 103 - 105
40:14 Final Tercets

Soundtrack: “Born in Chains", Leonard Cohen
youtube.com/watch?v=bIZDvnJOf8s

Translations used for this video:
Allen Mandelbaum barnesandnoble.com/w/paradiso-dante/1139687804
Robert Hollander barnesandnoble.com/w/paradiso-dante/1140792727?ean=9781400031153
Robin Kirkpatrick barnesandnoble.com/w/the-divine-comedy-dante-alighieri/1111306385?ean=9780143107194