La Divina Commedia

"You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth." - Niels Bohr I was thinking about Dante the other day and wondering how one could approach him from the angle of a GoodReads review. One of the obvious problems is that he lived a lo Leggi tutto

I We attempt to rewrite the Divine Comedy Canto I In the middle of the journey of my life I came across a man named Trump Who seemed bent on causing much strife O! how he was an unpleasant, fleshy lump! Like some hobgoblin of the child's imagination Or a thing that in the night goes bump. But in spite of le Leggi tutto

”THROUGH ME THE WAY INTO THE SUFFERING CITY,THROUGH ME THE WAY TO THE ETERNAL PAIN,THROUGH ME THE WAY THAT RUNS AMONG THE LOST.JUSTICE URGED ON MY HIGH ARTIFICER;MY MAKER WAS DIVINE AUTHORITY,THE HIGHEST WISDOM, AND THE PRIMAL LOVE.BEFORE ME NOTHING BUT ETERNAL THINGSWERE MADE, AND I ENDURE ETERN

Aclaro algo: no soy religioso, ni intelectual ni estudioso de los dioses o lo que pasa antes o después de la vida y la muerte. Leí el libro y lo encontré muy bueno. Leí la obra en un solo libro, pero no sabía que estaba dividido en 3 partes. Al parecer, Infierno es la obra más conocida, y no es para Leggi tutto

I started leafing through this at the bookshop round the corner, and by the time I'd got to the third page of the introduction I was intrigued. Clive James gave an insightful analysis of the Divine Comedy's poetic structure and explained, better than anyone I'd seen try this before, just how ridicul Leggi tutto