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re: Dante's Inferno... all I can say is "wow."
Posted on 6/4/10 at 12:28 pm to LSUZombie
Posted on 6/4/10 at 12:28 pm to LSUZombie
Paradiso is the most beautiful. Purgatory is probably the most interesting. Inferno is the least good in both respects.
A true indication of bad taste is rating Inferno highest. Also, the Comedy is incredibly complex and nearly impossible to understand properly going it alone. A good guide to Dante as a whole is John A. Scott's "Companion." I recommend the Durling / Martinez translation; it's the most accurate and has very good notes that don't stray into the irrelevant and obnoxious like Hollander's. Plus you get the italian on the facing page.
A true indication of bad taste is rating Inferno highest. Also, the Comedy is incredibly complex and nearly impossible to understand properly going it alone. A good guide to Dante as a whole is John A. Scott's "Companion." I recommend the Durling / Martinez translation; it's the most accurate and has very good notes that don't stray into the irrelevant and obnoxious like Hollander's. Plus you get the italian on the facing page.
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Posted on 6/4/10 at 1:03 pm to Bayou Sam
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Bayou Sam
Thanks for the info. I will definitely check those out. The version my friend let me borrow is by Chicardi (I think).
Posted on 6/4/10 at 1:06 pm to Bayou Sam
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Paradiso is the most beautiful. Purgatory is probably the most interesting. Inferno is the least good in both respects.
This.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 2:12 pm to Bayou Sam
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A true indication of bad taste is rating Inferno highest.
Oh come the frick on. The only reason anyone would say this is to show off how smart he is. "Oh Dante's Inferno? Clearly a work for imbeciles. True scholars appreciate the Paradiso, where you read for 150 pages about how a bunch of lights are arranged around a rose."
The problem with the Paradiso is there's no narrative structure because there's no conflict. Everyone's already in heaven; they all agree, "Hey, this is great! I love God!" There's a line that I think is quite indicative-- Dante interviews two saints who, when alive, had some theological disagreement about the naure of angels. When they died and went to heaven, they found out who was right and who was wrong. But they didn't care, because no one ever disagrees with anyone else in heaven.
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