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Inferno
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Abandon hope all ye who enter this review 💀😁
🔥 Of the three volumes of Dante’s After Life poetry I enjoyed Inferno and Paradiso the most. Paradiso, often unjustly neglected, has astonishing visions of light and extreme geometric precision. But the writing in both volumes is exceptional. (I couldn’t get entranced by Purgatory.)
🔥 You can get bogged down by Dante. Names names names and all in Italiano. So, I suggest you purchase an annotated edition of Inferno. Virgil will only explain so much and Dante stuffs Hell with his enemies. You won’t know who they are without the annotated version. Might as well find out who he hated the most.
Enjoy what others have enjoyed for hundreds of years 🔥🔥🔥
🔥 Of the three volumes of Dante’s After Life poetry I enjoyed Inferno and Paradiso the most. Paradiso, often unjustly neglected, has astonishing visions of light and extreme geometric precision. But the writing in both volumes is exceptional. (I couldn’t get entranced by Purgatory.)
🔥 You can get bogged down by Dante. Names names names and all in Italiano. So, I suggest you purchase an annotated edition of Inferno. Virgil will only explain so much and Dante stuffs Hell with his enemies. You won’t know who they are without the annotated version. Might as well find out who he hated the most.
Enjoy what others have enjoyed for hundreds of years 🔥🔥🔥
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Mar 09, 2023 12:20PM
Thank you Ingrid. Yeah you can’t understand half the Inferno without knowing who those people are he’s filling up Hell with.
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My old UCLA colleague Carlo Ginzburg, an expert on medieval Christianity, surmised that Dante borrowed many of the images found in THE INFERNO, e.g. usurers will have their heads branded with gold, straight from The Qur'an. Plausible. A Latin translation of the Qur'an did circulate in Italy during the 13th century. Interestingly , Mohammed is "a schismatic", not a pagan, in Dante's hell.
I’m certain there was more interaction then and that it didn’t all have to be polarization despite the Crusades
