I am over at Charles French’s lovely blog with a post about Dante’s Divine Comedy and its relevance to modern readers. This is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Thank you, Charles. Charles shares great quotes, inspiration writing posts, and other writer information so do look around while you are there. Charles also has a wonderful selection of books.
Thank you to Robbie Cheadle, a long time member of the U. L. S. The Underground Library Society!
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Background
Divine Comedy is a narrative poem, written in Italian and translated to English. Dante Alighieri spent twelve years writing this poem which was completed in 1320. The poem is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
The poem starts with Dante, the protagonist of the poem, finding himself in a dark and wild forest at night. The road towards the sunshine on the other side of a hill is guarded by three beasts which Dante cannot pass. He is in despair when Virgil, a pagan soul from the first circle of Hell, appears and tells him that the beautiful and good Beatrice, a woman who died young and was an object of admiration and desire by Dante, had arrange for him to journey through Hell, Purgatory, and…
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Bravo!
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Thank you, John.
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Thumbs up!
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Thank you, Annette.
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Awesome, Robbie. I’m heading over to Charles’s to read. 🙂
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Thank you, Diana.
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Excellent! Your Inferno posts have remained firmly planted in my mind ever since I read them.
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HI Liz, thank you. I have been so busy this year I just haven’t managed to stay on top of those posts so I thought I’d do this post as a more general round-up of my thoughts.
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The roundup worked well. (A good Plan B.)
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I second what Liz said. Those posts always gave me a lot to think about. (K)
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I am very happy to know that, Kerfe.
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Robbie, thank you so much for reblogging this post!
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My pleasure, Charles.
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