pickNot bad.
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Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise | 
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panAfter reading Dante‘s trilogy of the Divine Comedy I am ready to mail my copy to my cousin who enjoyed the inferno. He has not read Purgatorio and Paradiso yet and I hope he will better appreciate the other two as much as the Inferno. I for one enjoyed very little and wanted to know from my fellow readers, Do you you keep books you read and disliked? I did for some time but have started to keep only books that I have enjoyed and will reread again.
Hello, Littens!
It's been quite the fortnight. Mr K and I enjoyed a lovely week on the coast to celebrate my 50th.
We got back to find that his mum (who has been poorly for several months) had taken a drastic turn for the worse. She had emergency surgery this morning but it's still touch-and-go as to whether she'll pull through.
My daughter made me these fantastic Dante stickers from one of her digital paintings. π
#OnThisDay in 1451 a manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy was sold in London. The manuscript (now known as MS Hamilton 207) is known to have changed hands from one Italian merchant to another while in London, and is the first copy of the Commedia to be definitively placed in Britain. Marginalia includes the note: "I bought this book in London'' with further notation suggesting the date acquired. It now resides in Berlin. #HistoryGetsLIT
Challenging myself to read this one next. Have you read it?
pickI wasn‘t very interested in the religious zeal here, but as a horror writer and enthusiast, the imagery is remarkably stark. Honestly, this felt modern at times, given certain images that are conjured (particularly throughout Inferno).
Haven‘t read this since high school, so I appreciated the opportunity to go back now.
Dante haul (with Virgil, naturally)! π
It took me thirty years to pick up Dante for a second time and now, less than a year later, I've gone all out. π
God, I'm middle-aged!
My 15 yr old got this from B&N today. He is thinking he wants to start collecting these B&N Exclusives. He was having a hard time picking just one.
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One bingo for May! Luckily the free spaces aligned and I was able to drop in some Netgalley books. Overall a successful month of reading. #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo
and sometimes I deliver on tumblr.
(I don't want to think about the combined memeology and lit history knowledge this requires to be funny, I just like it)
π Not only three items on Dante (and a cover by William Blake) but Keats, too! This week's TLS promises to be a proper good'un. π
pickIn a word, awesome. I've been re-reading the Divine Comedy since August and am blown away by the vision, scope and intricate structure. I wish I could read Dante's Italian, to get more of the poetry. Paradiso is v. theological: I'd be lost without the notes and Great Courses lectures. I liked Purgatorio best, for it's practicable wisdom, discussion of the nature and role of poetry, and for it's view of sin (hate that word!) as love gone wrong. π
Dante and I go back a long way: not quite to the early 14th Century, granted, but here we are in Verona in 1996.
I wasn't expecting to enjoy Purgatory more than the Inferno, but so it was. It got full-on psychedelic towards the end, though! (I was glad of translator Mark Musa's commentary, and the lecture from The Great Courses, to make sense of that part.) And I am still sad that we had to bid Virgil farewell.
On to the Paradiso, then... (if I can just get the chorus of "Paradise City" out of my head.)
It's thirty years since I first read Dante! π± Goodness knows what I made of it as a teenager; this time around (and despite my enduring difficulties with the whole concept of hell) I'm really enjoying it, and all the more so for listening to the fascinating lectures from The Great Courses. On to Purgatory we go!
Guys, I am HARD CORE geeking out!!! 700 years after finishing The Divine Comedy, and then dying a year later, Dante FINALLY has his own official day πππ March 25 is most definitely going to be a day worth celebrating.
https://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/italy-establishes-national-dante-da...
pickI actually did it - I read the Divine Comedy! There sure are a lot of Italians in Hell π But still... I'm a little proud π
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so-soI had mixed feelings about this one, making it hard to give a review, because Inferno (the first part) was GREAT! Hilarious, engaging, entertaining, loved it... only things started to go downhill in Purgatorio, and Paradiso really stank. In sum, I'd say pick up a copy of Inferno and read that, but you can safely give the rest of it a miss. Full review here: http://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-divine-comedy-dante-alighieri/ #Poetry #Classics
pickI enjoyed it, the translation was fairly easy to read and was an incredibly interesting story. I would definitely read it again.
pickAn epic and deeply moving Period Piece of Theological Fan-Fiction that is still a fundamental influence on modern mythology. Don‘t just read it, re-read it. There are some good audiobooks of it out there, too.
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Sorry Cindy, you have another month of prompts from me! (I'll try not to use you-know-who this month though lol!)
pickIf I weren't Italian, I would learn the language just to appreciate this work of art.
I've just been to the theatre to watch the Divina Commedia - Opera Musical.
I'll never get tired of saying how great this poem is!
If it ever hits your Country, make sure not to miss it!!!
pickI'm not sure anyone in the world will ever be deserving and noble enough to review a masterpiece such as "La Divina Commedia" by Dante Alighieri.
So I'll just say this: I read it in the original language since I'm so lucky to call it my own (which makes it easier not to miss his poetical intention!), and every word is pure poetry. No book, no poem, no other literature can ever be as marvellous as this.
I found Inferno to be the best part.
β if one text can produce a second , perhaps the producing need never end, and no prior need be forgottenβ
pickFor whoever reads this and is kind enough to care, i want to say that i don't read as much as others but do like and i give a lot of thought to the things that i read. I consider every aspect of things like ; the characters, the way they are developed or how they behave according to the circumstances, the setting ofcourse, the story and so on. For now i want to keep this simple, i love the "divine comedy" of Dante.
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For the next 19 days, BBC Radio 4 has the three parts of The Divine Comedy available on the iPlayer. I've not listened to it myself yet, but it stars John Hurt amongst the cast, so that's a sign of quality right there. I've copied a link below, though I'm not sure if it's accessible outside the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xtvdp
It‘s the weekend so that means I‘ll be leaving my beautiful home again until Sunday night. It‘s always nice to leave everything behind and get away now and again but I‘m really not feeling in a place to be anywhere but Home right now. I‘m wondering if I want to haul Dante with me or not. It‘s a monster tome of a book to carry about but I think I want to reread it. Decisions decisions! #dantealighieri #classicsstudent #bookaddict #booklover
Got stuck at the library because of a huge storm so I decided to take advantage and start The Divine Comedy by Dante. I've never really read epic poetry before but I'm enjoying it so far. #rainyday #classic #epicpoetry #poetry
Two of my favorite books illustrated β€οΈ
Found this beautiful 1948 edition at the thrift shop yesterday- complete with #marginalia. β€οΈ #oldcoolbooks #vintagebooks
I‘m not sure if it‘s the translator or just my epic hatred of epic poetry but I am so fucking happy I only have a third of this left. (Trying to not think of how long that third might take me)
Not gonna lie it gives me an inordinate amount of joy to have Greek βHeroesβ (who are all really pieces of shit) placed in Hell
Abandon all hope ye who enter here
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Can you tell that this is not my first reading of the Commedia? One of my favorites. Something strange happened on Twitter Argentina: one December day a guy said "What if we all read 1 chapter of the Commedia a day? In a 100 days we finish it!".
Thus, #Dante2018 was born and thousands of us are reading the Commedia together!
*Did you read it? What's your favorite classic?
Found this illustrated masterpiece @ BAM. Going on my 2018 reading list.
Breaking out my study notebook for the Dante #lenghtylit read with @Tiffy_Reads βΌοΈβΌοΈπ₯ so excited βΌοΈβΌοΈπ±π₯π₯ππ
