Popularizing Paradiso: On the Difficulties of Podcasting Dante’s Most Academic Canticle

The digital humanities are rapidly expanding access to scholarly and literary materials once largely confined to the university. No more: now, with free digital resources, like Giuseppe Mazzotta’s lecture series available for free through Open Yale Courses on YouTube, or Teodolinda Barolini’s 54-lec...

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Published inHumanities (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 13
Main Author Schmid, Alexander Eliot
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2024
Subjects
Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)
Audiences
Company Web site/Web page
Dante
Digital archives
Digital Dante
Digital humanities
Divine Comedy
History
Open Yale Courses
Podcasting
podcasts
Public speaking
Systems analysis
Web sites
Web sites (World Wide Web)
United Kingdom
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Summary:The digital humanities are rapidly expanding access to scholarly and literary materials once largely confined to the university. No more: now, with free digital resources, like Giuseppe Mazzotta’s lecture series available for free through Open Yale Courses on YouTube, or Teodolinda Barolini’s 54-lecture long “The Dante Course”, also available for free through her Digital Dante website, academic discussions of difficult masterpieces are available to any person with enough bandwidth to handle it. I, too, made a brief foray into the digital humanities, and prior to turning to academic work, I provided a 42-lecture Dante-in-translation course which itself covered the entirety of Dante’s Comedy and sought to offer a less academic, and more accessible series of lectures on Dante than its more academic and more popular predecessors.
ISSN:2076-0787
2076-0787
DOI:10.3390/h13010013