false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604232m/6656.jpg 6656 222 <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 1321 La Divina Commedia total:6222|5:2459|4:2067|3:1278|2:335|1:83| 6222 25150 9711 452 5 20 false 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...]]> 4 2 false 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...]]> 3 3 false 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...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 16 04:22:44 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 04:23:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false 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...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 0 0 false 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...]]> 4 0 false 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...]]> 5 1 false 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...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 5 1 false 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...]]> 3 0 false 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...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 27 14:56:50 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 15:05:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 08 21:06:45 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 21:03:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 16 09:54:18 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 11:29:35 -0800 2009 belle langue
Who crafted these three heavenly pearls
Of stunning verse, that unleash in song
Of tortuous treks, our pilgrim led by Virgil's
Wise spirit, mastering fierce devils and Hell
To reach the base of Purgatory's mount
Bewitched by souls...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 16:31:50 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 19:11:53 -0700 2009
Very strange bo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 29 21:36:50 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 09:36:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 06 05:23:34 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 05:29:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 09 15:13:52 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 12:44:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6656