Star Lore Historian Mary Stewart Adams and speech artist Beatrice Voigt will offer an enthusiast's study  of Dante's Divine Comedy on zoom, Friday’s through the Lenten season, 2023 (information and registration at this link). Our approach, rather than being an academic or exhaustive undertaking, will be more like a stroll through Dante's master work, inspired by the pilgrim's own journey of exploration, following him through the Inferno, the Purgatory, and the Paradise, beginning with a mood akin to the one Dante himself describes, after he has made it through the purifying fire of the 7th Cornice, when he finds himself alone and free in the earthly paradise:
 

Eager to search, in and throughout its ways
The sacred wood, whose thick and leafy tent,
Spread in my sight, tempered the new sun's rays,

I made no pause, but left the cliff and went
With lingering steps across the level leas
Where all the soil breathed out a fragrant scent.

A delicate air, that no inconstancies
Knows in its motion, on my forehead played,
With force no greater than a gentle breeze,

And quivering at its touch the branches swayed,
All toward that quarter where the holy hill
With the first daylight stretches out its shade;
~Purgatorio Canto XXVIII, 1-12