“Your class on Dante’s Divine Comedy has been an intellectual oasis for me. Travis Patten and Christopher Hurtado are superb scholars who have done an excellent job of painting a picture of Dante’s time and place and helping me understand the multiple meanings of this majestic work. It has also awakened in me a desire to study that period of history more thoroughly. I’ve enjoyed the small group format of the class which lends itself we’ll to creating a warm, inviting learning atmosphere.”