false 6656 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg 6656 316 809248 book 1308 La Divina Commedia total:7922|5:3024|4:2579|3:1699|2:490|1:130| 7922 31643 12463 548 11519 3.98 20199 1473 875347 4.02 5504 353 750337 4.02 5526 358 798153 4.02 5511 354 7333 4.03 5716 371 40533983 1713956 6655 0451208633 9780451208637 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/66/655/6655-m-1255846309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/66/655/6655-s-1255846309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6655.The_Divine_Comedy 4.08 544 The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.]]> 1308 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...]]> 30609857 1336647 117621 1433200236 9781433200236 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117621.The_Divine_Comedy 3.60 5 1308 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...]]> 6695488 412006 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 354 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 4.02 5493 1308 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...]]> 2711802 59487 230263 8044400964 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172911163m/230263.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172911163s/230263.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230263._3_ 3.89 242 The Divine Comedy 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.

Allen Mandelbaum’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.

This Everyman’s edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—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.]]> 1308 0 2 false Wed Jul 04 11:33:30 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 11:33:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 59663601 1965973 32812 0140441050 9780140441055 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191m/32812.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191s/32812.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32812.Paradiso 3.74 674 1308 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...]]> 22259251 1161800 32812 0140441050 9780140441055 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191m/32812.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191s/32812.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32812.Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 5 2 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...]]> 3619007 208288 67563 0553212044 9780553212044 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170676278m/67563.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170676278s/67563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67563.Paradiso 3.75 101 1308 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...]]> 47594830 2075135 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 354 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 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...]]> 41836770 929592 2925336 140003115X 9781400031153 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2925336.Paradiso 4.00 8 The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot.  "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach."

The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order.  Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God.

"A spectacular achievement," said poet and critic Archibald MacLeish of John Ciardi's version of Dante's masterpiece.  "A text with the clarity and sobriety of a first-rate prose translation which at the same time suggests in powerful and unmistakable ways the run and rhythm of the great original."


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 1308 5 1 false Sun Jan 04 09:40:39 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 09:12:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 74706360 2507949 2764176 0199535647 9780199535644 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764176.The_Divine_Comedy 4.11 36 1308 5 1 false Fri Oct 16 04:22:44 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 04:23:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 74011109 544124 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 354 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 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...]]> 67858854 1743499 3908523 2903656428 9782903656423 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3908523.La_Divine_Com_die_de_Dante_Illustr_e_par_Botticelli 5.00 2 La Divine Comédie fut composée par Dante entre 1306 et 1321. Épopée métaphysique, récit d'une véritable vision dont l'auteur aurait fait l'expérience ? Le voici perdu en une "forêt obscure", s'éveillant comme hébété en un monde parallèle où Virgile - son maître spirituel - apparaît bientôt et lui tend une main secourable. Le voyage, ce parcours initiatique menant à la clarté divine, s'ouvre sur la traversée des neuf cercles de l'Enfer, sondant à la fois la symbolique chrétienne et les recoins les plus funestes de l'âme humaine. S'ensuit un vibrant périple au Purgatoire, au terme duquel Dante rencontrera Béatrice (la béatitude...), cette figure rayonnante et céleste qu'il poursuivra avec passion jusqu'aux portes du Paradis. Étonnante de modernité et affranchie des contraintes de la doctrine, La Divine Comédie est également remarquable par sa structure qui constitue un véritable monument de la poésie classique. Une oeuvre dont bien des poètes ont envié la perfection, à commencer par Charles Baudelaire. --Lenaïc Gravis et Jocelyn Blériot ]]> 1308 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...]]> 52320111 115991 6655 0451208633 9780451208637 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/66/655/6655-m-1255846309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/66/655/6655-s-1255846309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6655.The_Divine_Comedy 3.99 7922 The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.]]> 1308 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...]]> 41155783 307065 101306 0785821201 9780785821205 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171477453m/101306.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171477453s/101306.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101306.Divine_Comedy 4.14 65
Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise -- the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with illustrations by Gustave Doré.]]> 1308 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...]]> 9816980 424383 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 354 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 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...]]> 61631414 1361138 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 354 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 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...]]> 66871476 2339046 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 354 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 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...]]> 1343687 85928 32812 0140441050 9780140441055 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191m/32812.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204385191s/32812.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32812.Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 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...]]> 47106689 2058262 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 354 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 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...]]> 44556630 528595 6656 0679433139 9780679433132 354 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232s/6656.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy_Inferno_Purgatorio_Paradiso 3.99 7922 1308 3 0 false Tue Jan 27 14:56:50 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 15:05:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6656