Travis Simpkins

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Mike Hambrecht. Mike the Intern. The Masonic Roundtable. Ohio Freemason. by Travis Simpkins

Mike Hambrecht. Mike the Intern. The Masonic Roundtable. Grand Lodge of Ohio. by Travis Simpkins

Portrait Sketch of

Mike Hambrecht

"Mike the Intern"
Co-Host of

The Masonic Roundtable

Podcast and YouTube Show

Member of

Village Lodge No. 274

Triandria Lodge No. 780

Grand Lodge of Ohio

by Travis Simpkins

The Masonic Roundtable

For more info, please visit:

themasonicroundtable.com

Mike Hambrecht. Mike the Intern. The Masonic Roundtable. Podcast. by Travis Simpkins

Monday, August 15, 2022

The Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri. Inferno. Purgatorio. Paradiso

I'm beginning a slow descent...

I'm enjoying a thorough, careful reading of "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. I'm still traveling through the circles of Hell, partway through the Cantos of the Inferno. Then onward to Purgatorio and Paradiso.

An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and furnished with semiautobiographical details, Dante's poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.