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We’re reading two cantos per week, which amounts to roughly 7 pages weekly (just one page a day), culminating in Paradiso on December 25, 2025. Dante meticulously crafted his poem with mathematical symmetry, and I couldn’t help but feel inspired by how perfectly the dates of our read-along align—the 25th of December in the year 2025!
I’ll email you a detailed guide to this magnificent masterpiece every Thursday and Sunday.
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🌑 Inferno
Canto I (12 of January): The Story Begins
Canto II (16 of January): How to Overcome Doubt
Canto III (19 of January) How to Conquer Cowardice
Canto IV (23 of January) The Limits of Our Reason are the Limits of Our World.
Canto V (26 of January) The Gates of Hell Are Wide, Path To Heaven Narrow
Canto VI (30 of January) How Gluttony Destroys Our Cities
Canto VII (02 of February): Crushed by Gold, Consumed by Hate: Avarice and Wrath in Hell
Canto VIII (06 of February) How to Overcome the Evils Rooter in the Intellect
Canto IX (09 of February) Medusa and the Mind: What Dante’s Furies Teach Us About Despair
Canto X (13 of February) When Politics Becomes Our Religion
Canto XI (16 of February): A Map to the Labyrinths of Our Psyche
Canto XII (20 of February) Love & Strife: Are We Masters of the Beast Within?
Canto XIII (23 of February) Fate, Free Will and Despair: What Helps Us Endure?
Canto XIV (27 of February) Can a Civilisation Endure Once It Has Lost its Religion?
Canto XV (02 of March) If You Pursue Your Star, You Cannot Fail to Reach a Splendid Harbour
Canto XVI (06 of March): The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions
Canto XVII (09 of March) How Sin Built the Renaissance (and the Beautiful Face of Deception)
Canto XVIII (13 of March) What is the Price of Your Soul?
Canto XIX (16 of March) Why Do Things Lose Their Meaning?
Canto XX (20 of March) You Cannot Know Your Fate: The Deception of Seers and Sorcerers
Canto XXI (23 of March): How to Fight the Devils That Stand in Our Way?
Canto XXII (27 of March): In Church With Saints, With Rotters in the Tavern
Canto XXIII (30 of March): Hypocrites: Saints Abroad, Devils at Home
Canto XXIV (03 of April): Ripley and Dante: I Wear the Skin of Those I’ve Robbed
Canto XXV (06 of April): How Bad Habits Become Our Destiny: Aristotle, Vice, and the Deformation of the Soul
Canto XXVI (10 of April): The Art of Resilience: How to Choose Your Destiny?
Canto XXVII (13 of April) Dante & Machiavelli: The Harmony Between the Spirit and Intellect
Canto XXVIII (17 of April) When Words Wound Deeper Than Blades
Canto XXIX (20 of April) False Gold and Rotten Flesh: Alchemy and Achilles's Shield
Canto XXX (24 of April) How to Avoid Becoming a Bystander in Your Own Life
Canto XXXI (27 of April) How to Avoid Mental Confusion in a World of Infinite Knowledge
Canto XXXII (01 of May) Breaking the Ice Within: The Line Between Good and Evil Passes Through Every Heart
Canto XXXIII (04 of May) The Soul Dies Before the Flesh: How Not to Die Alone
Canto XXXIV (08 of May) Surviving Hell: To See the Stars Again!
🌒 Purgatory
Canto I (11 of May) Stoicism of Purgatory: In doing nothing men learn to do evil
Canto II (15 of May) Dante and Cato: Don’t Let Your Dreams Die - Put off the old man, and put on the new
Canto III (18 of May) The Harmony of Faith and Reason: When Sight Ends and Vision Begins
Canto IV (22 of May) When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Will Come
Canto V (25 of May) Dante and Victor Hugo: The Turning of the Will and the Moment Life Changes Forever
Canto VI (29 of May) Dante Plays Zara: Is Fate Just the Rolle of a Die?
Canto VII (01 of June): The Importance of Rest or How Darkness Implicates Our Will
Canto VIII (05 of June): Overcoming Nostalgia: “Salve Regina” and “Te Lucis Ante”
Canto IX (08 of June): The Mirror of the Soul: Three Steps Towards Salvation
Canto X (12 of June): Michelangelo and Dante: Sculpting and Singing the Divine
Canto XI (15 of June): You Must Change Your Life
Canto XII (19 of June): Vice & Virtue: The Art of Reflection
Canto XIII (22 of June): Schadefreude: Why We Rejoice in the Ruin of Others?
Canto XIV (26 of June): Oculus Tortus: The Twisted Eye
Canto XV (29 of June) Tolstoy & Dante: Experiencing Ecstasy
Canto XVI (03 of July): What Did Dante Really Think of Free Will?
Canto XVII (06 of July) How Love Directs Our Attention
Canto XVIII (10 of July) What We Attend to, We Become: Is Love Beyond Our Control?
Canto XIX (13 of July) Sirens: How to Know That You're Being Seduced?
Canto XX (17 of July) How to Escape the Labyrinth of Your Own Mind?
Canto XXI (20 of July) Dante: The Power of Reading
Canto XXII (24 of July) Dante & The Art of Reading
Canto XXIII (27 of July) How To Satisfy Our Hunger for Meaning
Canto XXIV (31 of July) Poets Who Went Blind: Homer, Dante, Milton, Borges and Joyce
Canto XXV (03 of August) 🪞 Mirrors That Reflect Our Authentic Selves
Canto XXVI (07 of August) The Labyrinth of Love
Canto XXVII (10 of August) Virgil's Farewell
Canto XXVIII (14 of August) The Rivers of Consciousness
Canto XXIX (17 of August) Lawrence of Arabia & Dante: Seven Pillars of Wisdom 🕯️
Canto XXX (21 of August) Orpheus and Beatrice: Fear & Trembling
Canto XXXI (24 of August) How to Reassemble Your Broken Self
Canto XXXII (28 of August) Beauty and the Soul: How Dante Teaches Us to Look
Canto XXXIII (31 of August) How to Examine Our Conscience
✨ Paradise
Canto I (04 of September) Are we Gods?: In Search of Divine Within
Canto II (08 of September) What you hold dear in your heart will echo in eternity
Canto III (11 of September) Counter-Narcissus: A Short Guide to Seeing Truly
Canto IV (15 of September) Between Two Doubts: Absolute and Conditional Will
Canto V (18 of September) The Irreversible Step: How to Choose the Right Direction in Life
Canto VI (22 of September) Mercury’s Light: Souls Who Did Good for Fame
Canto VII (25 of September) The Bridge to the Divine: Was the Crucifixion Necessary?
Canto VIII (29 of September) Bitter Fruit, Sweet Seed: When a Warrior Becomes a Priest
Canto IX (02 of October) Famous Sinners: Tolstoy, Augustine and Dostoyevsky
Canto X (06 of October) The Triumph of Truth
Canto XI (09 of October) Divine Symmetry: Dante and the Renaissance
Canto XII (13 of October) The Garden of Our Mind
Canto XIII (16 of October) The Sphere of Wisdom: Be Able to Differentiate
Canto XIV (20 of October) From Knowing to Doing: The Resurrection of Action
Canto XV (23 of October) Idyllic Homelands: How Our Blood Shapes Us
Canto XVI (27 of October) Time’s Scissors: When the Past Becomes a Mirror
Canto XVII (30 of October) The Arrow One Foresees Arrives more Gently.
Canto XVIII (03 of November) ‘M’ Stands For Justice
Canto XIX (06 of November) Christ on the Banks of Indus
Canto XX (10 of November) The Eye of the Divine Justice
Canto XXI (13 of November) Saturn: Beauty of Thinking
Canto XXII (17 of November) The Reverse of Orpheus
Canto XXIII (20 of November) Ecstasy: Standing Outside Oneself
Canto XXIV (24 of November) Unexamined Faith is Not Worth Practicing
Canto XXV (27 of November) What is Hope?
Canto XXVI (01 of December) Choose Your Archetype:Ulysses, Siren or Adam
Canto XXVII (04 of December) The Mind of God
Canto XXVIII (08 of December) Dante’s Angelology
Canto XXIX (11 of December) Dante and the film ‘Arrival’: Language and Angels
Canto XXX (15 of December) How to Drink from the River of Light
Canto XXXI (18 of December) Dante’s Independence
Canto XXXII (22 of December) Measure seven times but don’t forget to pray
Canto XXXIII (25 of December): The Story Ends: Divine Comedy
The End: 🥳 , We have all reached Heaven 🌟 , Paradise 🌳 , Paradiso 🖼️ !
What is the source of that wonderful illustration you are using for Inferno?
Question regarding the schedule. In September, with Paradiso, do the dates change to Thursdays and Mondays? TY!