That was very interesting, thanks for that review.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 03/10/2012 03:12:30 PM
Writing a short review of La Divina Commedia is almost a futile effort, first, because the work reviewed is too grand to be reviewed in brief, and second, because so much ink has already been spilled in its analysis and review, in many cases by people who have devoted their entire lives to a study of Dante. Even so, I want to memorialize my own thoughts upon reading Dante in the original Italian, and perhaps someone will enjoy the result.
I did. Judging by my difficulty in understanding even the short parts you quoted, though, I'm really not going to be following your example, and may have to resign myself to reading it in translation at some point. At best a bilingual edition, if that exists.
I'm - inevitably, probably - reminded of Milton in a number of places in your review, though of course Milton writes centuries later and with quite different messages. And from the sound of it, Paradise Lost is rather a lot shorter... this may be one of those books that I need to read on some occasion when I have the energy and ambition for it.
La Divina Commedia by Dante
- 03/10/2012 02:42:29 AM
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That was very interesting, thanks for that review.
- 03/10/2012 03:12:30 PM
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If you're looking for a bilingual edition, the Princeton Bollingen series is supposedly excellent.
- 03/10/2012 11:24:53 PM
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This makes me want to re-read it, in Italian, of course 
- 03/10/2012 06:05:01 PM
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It was an ambitious undertaking for me, given my work load this year.
- 03/10/2012 11:28:01 PM
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I enjoyed reading this, and even stopped to look up Ugolino della Gherardesca on wikipedia. *NM*
- 04/10/2012 02:32:45 PM
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