false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172911163m/230263.jpg 2254811 316 <i>The Divine Comedy</i> begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.<br><br>Allen Mandelbaum&#8217;s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.<br><br>This Everyman&#8217;s edition&#8211;containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso&#8211;includes an introduction by Nobel Prize&#8212;winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations. 809248 book 1308 La Divina Commedia total:7727|5:2953|4:2523|3:1645|2:479|1:127| 7727 30877 12132 541 6655 0451208633 9780451208637 541 40 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255846309m/6655.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6655.The_Divine_Comedy 5 20 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Dec 20 12:27:01 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 03:33:36 -0800 2008
- Niels Bohr

I was thinking about Dante the other day and wondering how one could approach him from the angle of a GoodReads review. One of the obvi...more...]]> 117621 1433200236 9781433200236 5 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117621.The_Divine_Comedy 4 2 false Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 19:48:41 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 11:02:55 -0700 2008 a long strange trip its been. So, it was with an introspective bit of drollness that I embarked on this reread.

I was fascinated with Inferno as a teenager and between Dante Alighieri and ...more...]]> 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 5325 347 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3 3 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Sep 24 06:49:01 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 15 07:17:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 230263 8044400964 240 20 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172911163m/230263.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230263._3_ 0 2 false Wed Jul 04 11:33:30 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 11:33:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 32812 0140441050 9780140441055 674 20 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191m/32812.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32812.Paradiso 5 1 true Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jun 14 17:50:02 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 09 09:12:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 32812 0140441050 9780140441055 674 20 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191m/32812.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32812.Paradiso 5 1 false Wed May 14 16:03:11 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 09 09:12:19 -0800 2009
"A smile at this
Lightened her eyes, and those who crowded near
Smiled with h...more...]]> 67563 0553212044 9780553212044 102 12 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170676278m/67563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67563.Paradiso 5 1 false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Jul 26 19:26:04 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 09 09:12:19 -0800 2009 And here my memory defeats my wit:
Christ’s flaming from that cross was such that I
can find no fit similitude for it…
my seeing Christ flash forth undid my force.
(Paradiso XIV: 103-105, 108)
This is the central contradi...more...]]> 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 5325 347 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 5 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 26 09:30:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 10:16:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2925336 140003115X 9781400031153 8 4 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2925336.Paradiso 5 1 false Sun Jan 04 09:40:39 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 09:12:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2764176 0199535647 9780199535644 34 4 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764176.The_Divine_Comedy 5 0 false Fri Oct 16 04:22:44 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 04:23:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 5325 347 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 15:38:34 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 15:42:09 -0700 2009
Dante's magnus opus exceeds my weak grasp to illuminate. If you are part of the Western world, you have been colored by this book, whether you have read it or not. So many authors have ...more...]]> 3908523 2903656428 9782903656423 2 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3908523.La_Divine_Com_die_de_Dante_Illustr_e_par_Botticelli 5 0 false Tue Aug 18 04:53:37 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 04:54:32 -0700 2009
Épopée métaphysique, récit d'une véritable vision dont l'auteur aurait fait l'expérience ?

Le voici perdu en une "forêt obscure", s'éveillant comme héb...more...]]> 6655 0451208633 9780451208637 541 40 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255846309m/6655.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6655.The_Divine_Comedy 0 0 false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 13:49:43 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 14:31:54 -0700 2009
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I started this book because I adore T.S. Eliot, and he adores Dante; I was looking for context for his epigraph to Prufrock. Having reached it, I have very little impetus to contin...more...]]> 101306 0785821201 9780785821205 58 7 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171477453m/101306.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101306.Divine_Comedy 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 23:30:08 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 22:46:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 5325 347 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 5 1 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Sat Dec 01 15:58:19 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 16:01:55 -0800 2007 more...]]> 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 5325 347 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 5 0 false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Tue Jun 30 09:48:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 13:50:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 5325 347 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 5 1 false Fri Aug 28 14:12:32 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 13:35:27 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 14:12:32 -0700 2009
The plot is well known, of course. In the middle of his life, Dante finds himself lost in a dark forest; he's rescued by the shade of Virgil, the Roman poe...more...]]> 32812 0140441050 9780140441055 674 20 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191m/32812.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32812.Paradiso 5 1 false Mon May 21 11:05:38 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 09 09:12:19 -0800 2009 Dorothy L. Sayers's verse translation and notes bring the poet's cantos into an unrele...more...]]> 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 5325 347 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 21 20:14:04 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 20:27:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 5325 347 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3 0 false Tue Jan 27 14:56:50 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 15:05:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=230263