Divina Commedia – Paradiso

Paradiso = Paradise = Heaven (La Divina Commedia #3), Dante Alighieri Paradiso is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolizes theology. In the poem, Paradis Leggi tutto

The journey with Dante and his spiritual guides through the afterlife concludes appropriately with Paradiso. Written around 1319 to just before he died in 1321, it is his ultimate vision of God and Heaven and a wild ride. The pace is much faster - or at least it seemed to me - than Inferno and Purga Leggi tutto

"What little I recall is to be told, from this point on, in words more weak than those of one whose infant tongue still bathes at the breast." Canto XXXIII Note: When your eyes glaze over at any point while reading this review, simply skip ahead to the solid line __________. Dante wrote his 'Divine Co Leggi tutto

حال آن کس را دارم که چیزی را به رؤیا دیده و چون بیدار شود، لذت آن هنوز باقی است، اما رؤیا را به یاد نتواند آورد. زیرا که مکاشفه ی من از خاطرم رفته است، اما لذتی که از این بابت بردم هنوز در دلم باقی است. دانته به یاری روح معشوقش، «بئاتریس»، به نقطه ی پایانی عزیمت خود می رسد: بهشت آسمانی.ارواح بهشتی، ب Leggi tutto

The Paradiso is the third and final part of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. As the name implies, this part contains Dante's version of Paradise. Dante's Paradise is influenced by medieval views on Cosmology. Accordingly, it has nine concentric spheres that surround the earth. Above the spheres Leggi tutto

As much as you have to admire Dante for his knowledge spanning over so many fields - philosophy, cosmology, history, theology, mythology, poets, politics, whatever is the word for the science of torture (Dante should be called father of that science), about local crimes etc - one can see why Borges

For the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament, The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh versus The Divine Comedy My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to s Leggi tutto

“Infinite order rules in this domain.Mere accidence can no more enter inthan hunger can, or thirst, or grief, or pain.” “Now comes this man who from the final pitof the universe up to this height has seen,one by one, the three lives of the spirit.” I have been reviewing each canto separately, but t Leggi tutto

و این کار عشق بود که خورشید و دیگر اختران را در گردش دارد. آخرین شعر دانته در کمدیش آخرین جلد کمدی الهی، اثری بسیار متفاوت با دو جلد قبلیست؛ حاوی مباحث دشوار، زبانی ثقیل و مملو از استعارات پیچیده و سرشار از مفاهیم عرفانی. شاید مهمترین علت شهرت و احترام این جلد در غرب، نادر بودن چنین نوشته‌هایی در اد Leggi tutto

Paradise: Too bright and too noisy. Not my choice for a good retirement spot. I have decided to settle for the Earthly Paradise atop Purgatory, with its meadows, light music and pleasant breeze. Seems like the best long term investment at the end of this cosmic tour.