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ThatRedHairedGrrl
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 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: Dante, anyone? |
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All those Hell discussions on the Religion forum got me back reading Dante's Divine Comedy.
Anyone else a fan? (In Italian or in translation? I don't actually know Italian, but I occasionally try to mug through the original going by what I know of the Romance languages generally...which is fun, if sometimes confusing.)
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pandabear
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I read it a long time ago.
Believe it or not, some people still take Dante's work literally. |
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Jeyradan
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I read it a long time ago (the seventh grade), but have returned to read Inferno and Paradiso once more since. I like best his description of the difficulty of choice, brief though it is (in Paradiso IV), and his attempt to comprehend at the end. I'm not religious, yet I appreciate that passage.
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TheMidnightJudge
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I always thought it was supposed to be serious. I read Inferno a long time ago expecting it to be serious, and so I took it seriously.
All in all an awesome read. There's nothing quite like a river of boiling blood. |
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darkstone100
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| I read it just a couple of months ago, it was a little hard to get used to the poem style of writing. |
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| It is a poem from the Middle Ages, after all. Older than Shakespeare. |
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Quatermass
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I have read Inferno. One of my favourite bits is when Malacoda, the leader of the Malebranches, 'made a bugle out of his arse' (my favourite translation, by Anthony Esolen).
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merr
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| The Inferno was one of my favorite pieces of literature in high school. No one in my class liked it but me as they thought it was too scary. Dante's creativity in matching the punishment with the sin always intrigued me. The most creative and suspenseful part, however, was when he went through the forest to get into hell. |
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