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[Anonymous No.16247925]

What are your genuine thoughts on the Divine Comedy?

[Anonymous No.16247939]

Abrahamic afterlife fanfic

[Anonymous No.16247946]

>>16247925
Inferno: gets all the attention, but is the Comedy's darkest and most hopeless part. Particularly interesting for a look at Dante's view of contemporaries.

Purgatorio: The least interesting part to me. You see the contrasts between sin and virtue here, and the team (Dante and Virgil) recover from their experience in Inferno.

Paradasio: My favorite part, and the most sublime. We see a sort of cosmology form, and Dante sees the Trinity in all it's glory. Also, Dante gets to see his Beatrice, and move on. A very serene and moving story.

I need to read it again, it's been too long.

[Anonymous No.16247997]

>>16247925
(Same poster as >>16247946)
Can someone who read the Italian version tell us what's lost in translation? I read the Longfellow English translation.

[Anonymous No.16248010]

>>16247925
The part where Vergil leaves Dante is probably the greatest thing ever written outside of the bible

[Anonymous No.16248041]

>>16247939
I only read Inferno but this is pretty much what I think, although it's beautifully written, and Virgil is a gangster
Kinda what I thought of Paradise Lost too, like it was a fanfiction of the Bible

[Anonymous No.16248049]

>>16247925
Friendly reminder.

>I do not agree with much modern criticism, in greatly preferring the Inferno to the two other parts of the Divine Commedia. Such preference belongs, I imagine, to our general Byronism of taste, and is like to be a transient feeling. The Purgatorio and Paradiso, especially the former, one would almost say, is even more excellent than it. It is a noble thing that Purgatorio, "Mountain of Purification;" an emblem of the noblest conception of that age. If sin is so fatal, and Hell is and must be so rigorous, awful, yet in Repentance too is man purified; Repentance is the grand Christian act. It is beautiful how Dante works it out. The tremolar dell' onde, that "trembling" of the ocean-waves, under the first pure gleam of morning, dawning afar on the wandering Two, is as the type of an altered mood. Hope has now dawned; never-dying Hope, if in company still with heavy sorrow. The obscure sojourn of demons and reprobate is underfoot; a soft breathing of penitence mounts higher and higher, to the Throne of Mercy itself. "Pray for me," the denizens of that Mount of Pain all say to him. "Tell my Giovanna to pray for me," my daughter Giovanna; "I think her mother loves me no more!" They toil painfully up by that winding steep, "bent down like corbels of a building," some of them,—crushed together so "for the sin of pride;" yet nevertheless in years, in ages and aeons, they shall have reached the top, which is heaven's gate, and by Mercy shall have been admitted in. The joy too of all, when one has prevailed; the whole Mountain shakes with joy, and a psalm of praise rises, when one soul has perfected repentance and got its sin and misery left behind! I call all this a noble embodiment of a true noble thought.

[Anonymous No.16248264]

What translation do I read

[Anonymous No.16248267]

>>16248264
I've heard Longfellow is great.

[Anonymous No.16248332]

I think it is poorly written, the subject matter is stale and, sparing the imaginative depictions of the rings of hell, is a work which appeals nothing to non-Christians.

[Anonymous No.16248419]

>>16248332

[Anonymous No.16248882]

>>16247925
Only read inferno. Alright, some of the levels are cool. I like the one where they stand on ice and see through the world. Not bad fantasy.

[Anonymous No.16248941]

>>16248332
Worst post I've read all weekend.

t. non-christian

[Anonymous No.16248953]

>>16247925
Incomparable poetry. Terrific story. Paradiso is incredibly moving.

[Anonymous No.16248989]

>>16247925
Not that funny

[Anonymous No.16249605]

I didnt understand what the f word was going on through heaven part

[Anonymous No.16249958]

Anyone have updated version of pic related?

[Anonymous No.16250167]

>>16248332

[Anonymous No.16250312]

Revenge fantasy & bible fanfiction written by a bitter incel in the 13th century. I'm italian btw, Dante is still a humongous talentless hack.

[Anonymous No.16250835]

>>16250312
What are your favorite books?

[Anonymous No.16251169]

>>16250835
The consolation of philosophy

[Anonymous No.16252259]

>>16247925
I dont really understand how to read it and the language is mostly lost on me. Are there some prerequisite readings to understand it better?

[Anonymous No.16252407]

>>16252259
yes the western canon up until dante