In this episode, Dr. Paola Rodriguez takes us into Dante’s Divine Comedy, exploring four characters within their historical context. She examines them as micro-historical episodes used by Dante to criticize and denounce certain societal mores of his time. The theory of micro-history itself functions as a central device in Dante’s narratorial structuring, lending itself to the process of historical redressing of injustices.

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