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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

Dante Alighieri

Start date: April 1, 2018

Finish date: June 30, 2018

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Mar 30, 2014 Laura rated it really liked it

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From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial:
Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.

In Episode 1: Inferno, the thirty-five year old Dante (Blake Ritson) finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in extreme personal and spiritual crisis. But hope of rescue appears i ...more

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Mar 15, 2018 Rachel rated it it was amazing

How do you “review” a book that has stood the test of centuries? I read The Divine Comedy as a Lenten practice. From a spiritual point of view, it is profound, and puts to shame the contemporary writers who are lauded as coming out with new understandings about God. I grew weary of the iambic pentameter and of the way it forces the writer to come up with syllables purely for form’s sake, but still, the poem shows a virtuosity that astounds. If I had had more time I would’ve read every footnote. ...more

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