If we are serious about renewing the Christian intellectual tradition, we must return to Dante. 100 Days of Dante makes that return accessible, communal, and transformative, a model for how great books should be read today.

The launch of 100 Days of Dante in 2021 prompted our parent and staff book club to read the Divine Comedy. The lectures are at once profound and accessible—the perfect guide (along with Virgil, Beatrice, and St. Bernard) for our journey. I’m still sharing links to the cantos several years later!

I teach at a classical Christian high school in Houston and I find your videos invaluable in my teaching of the entire Divine Comedy twice a year. The videos may reinforce what I’ve already said, or present an alternative view I may not have considered. My college-bound students appreciate the more advanced presentations, especially from the colleges they may be attending!

I never read The Divine Comedy in school, but after finishing college and law school, I bought a copy, believing it was a masterpiece everyone should experience. Yet, every time I tried to decipher it, I gave up in frustration. When I retired, I thought, “Now is the time.” However, time hadn’t made the dense metaphors or the historical and biblical references any easier to navigate. Then, I discovered “100 Days of Dante.” It was exactly what I needed—reading each Canto alongside expert commentary. Tackling two or three Cantos a week was the perfect pace, allowing me to finally digest and appreciate the beauty of the work. Now, at age 72, I can finally say, “Yes, of course I have read The Divine Comedy.”

100 Days of Dante helped me as I guided a dozen teenagers through the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso over the course of twenty-four dinners and one school year. We ate well, had excellent discussions, and grew in our love for Dante! What a gift this series was to me and to those kids.

I very much appreciated taking the 100 Days of Dante. In fact, it was my second time. Through the course I, as a Catholic priest, have been led at times to incorporate dimensions of La Divine Comedia into my sermons. Yes, Dante’s inspiring work has and will continue to influence my faith and ministry.