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      <name><![CDATA[Dante Alighieri]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;Paradiso&quot; is the climax of Dante's great &quot;Commedia&quot;.  This is what we've been waiting for since we opened to page one of &quot;Inferno&quot;.  And what do we find here?  Many, it would seem, find disappointment and boredom.  After the horror and close calls in &quot;Inferno&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59663601">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed May 14 16:03:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Something about this passage gets me.  I always come back to it.  Sad and beautiful.  Dante asks a woman in the lowest rung of Paradise - the moon - if she doesn't hanker to go higher:<br/><br/>            &quot;A smile at this<br/>Lightened her eyes, and those who crowded near<br/>Smiled with h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22259251">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Exalted to the fifth heaven, Dante wrote:<br/><em>And here my memory defeats my wit: <br/>Christ’s flaming from that cross was such that I <br/>can find no fit similitude for it…<br/>my seeing Christ flash forth undid my force. </em><br/>(<u>Paradiso </u>XIV: 103-105, 108)<br/>This is the central contradi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3619007">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 09:40:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finished my slow reading of the Paradiso on the last day of the year, which somehow seems appropriate.  The Hollander translation seems excellent, and the notes, while far too detailed in their summary of all earlier commentaries, pretty much answer most of my questions.  Now to go back to the Infer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41836770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1343687">
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  <date_added>Mon May 21 11:05:38 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 21 11:09:18 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To the cry of &quot;Gloria in excelsis,&quot; the purged soul ascends from Mt. Purgatory to paradise. Dante's masterpiece of extra-canonical theology completes with his distinctly transcendent view of heaven.<br/>Dorothy L. Sayers's verse translation and notes bring the poet's cantos into an unrele...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1343687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1322548">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 08 05:53:28 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is incredibly intimidating. but after reading the vita nuova and the other two books in the divine comedy, <em>paradiso</em> is literally the coup de grace, in the most beautiful and beatific way possible.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I take a stupid pride in not needing footnotes. On this one, I felt like I needed more footnotes than were actually provided. I cannot begin to figure out what Dante was trying to do with all the astronomical and mathematical symbols he kept inserting everywhere, but I am convinced that he is brilli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47681457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6365985">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 17 07:16:52 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stalled out a little on this around canto 6.  I love the Hollanders' work, but Paradiso is the most esoteric of the three cantos, and I'm having a hard time appreciating the political and theological details.  Hope to pick this up again soon, just to carry my conversation with Hollander and Dante to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6365985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60091317">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kevin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beatrice (a woman who had died early in life whom Dante apparently loved) escorts Dante through Paradise.  This one was much more difficult for me to get through than &quot;The Inferno.&quot;  The main theme was &quot;increasing light.&quot;  Perhaps the most difficult read I have ever tackled.    N...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60091317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75666511">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 29 10:10:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never really give Paradise the attention it is due, but this time around was better than last time, since that is the only part I was reading. Dante is lovely and intriguing, and definitely worth the study, but I would have a hard time with it outside of a class setting, I think. There's just so m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75666511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61357021">
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent translation. Jean Hollander has perfect tone and intonation. The book is set up with facing translations (Italian/English) &amp; notes at the end of each canto. The Hollander translation is the text for the Princeton Dante Project. An incredible poetic resource located <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.princeton.edu/dante">www.princeton.edu/dante</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61357021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61280068">
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    <body><![CDATA[To be able to visualize and imagine what heaven looks like, truly spectacular. Dante is the Da Vinci of writing. And to those who are fascinated of life and death and about the divine they will be pleased to read the divine comedy.]]></body>
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    <review id="76248119">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely lacks the excitement of Hell, but nonetheless an interesting look into medieval perspectives on Heaven and on the transcendent. I was glad we read it in class, because I would never have understood it on my own... ]]></body>
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    <review id="75868740">
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent translation.  Very well annotated to truly help you understand the work.  Though Paradiso is a classic for a reason, it just pales in comparison to Inferno.  It would be nice if this is truly what paradise is like, but for literary drama hell is a much better subject.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="67842997">
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the Kirkpatrick edition and liked the format and the notes less than Mark Musa's translation, whose Inferno and Purgatory I read.  This involved more flipping and the notes in general were less helpful.]]></body>
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    <review id="50137902">
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    <name><![CDATA[CX]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Musa's translation, diagrams very helpful for understanding/seeing what's up in cantos X-XII &amp; XVIII-XX; most poetic &amp; readable (along with  poets Pinsky (Inferno) &amp; Merwin (Purgatorio)]]></body>
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    <review id="53259744">
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    <body><![CDATA[Is it wrong that I prefer Inferno? Paradiso is really pretty boring in comparison. It's also fairly hard to grasp, since everyone is light orbs; you don't get a good sense of where everything is. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last amazing book in thsi series. I found this one harder to understand then the rest, but still good.  There are a lot of good life lessons in the series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While, in my opinion, Paradiso doesn't really stack up to Inferno, it's pretty amazing. How can you not love something this intricate?]]></body>
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