Divine comedy
This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno,Purgatorio,andParadiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum,The Divine Comedybegins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.
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- These virtues are: humility, meekness, zeal, chastity, generosity, charity, and temperance.
Their opposites are: pride, wrath, sloth, lust, greed, envy, and gluttony.
Unforgivable that this morality is not in the training.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_virtues
(Dante’s Divine Comedy is my guide)
- Not in this list, but I feel Dante deserves an honorable mention for his inclusion of an explanation of the hypersphere (3-sphere) in the Divine Comedy.
Great write up here[1]
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252338100_Dante_and...
- By former academic and current author Mark Scarbrough. 'Walking with Dante' is a passion project, taking on Dante's masterwork 'The Divine Comedy' passage-by-passage.
"I've taught it many times. But I've always felt rushed. I wanted to take this masterpiece at my speed. "
- If you're interested in Divine Comedy here's one I cannot recommend enough:
Walking with Dante by Mark Scarbrough: https://walkingwithdante.captivate.fm
It's slow and immensely comprehensive, but also very accessible and so much fun! His love for the subject and enthusiasm are contagious.
Sharing this because thanks to HN I learned about some of my other favourite podcasts: Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur and The History of Rome by Marc Duncan. I finished THoR twice and I listen to Isaac's podcast every week. I keep coming back to Dante.
- Have been going through The Divine Comedy this year as a part of https://100daysofdante.com, cannot recommend enough!
- Have been going through The Divine Comedy this year as a part of https://100daysofdante.com, cannot recommend enough!
