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Author Topic: Dante's Inferno  (Read 2667 times)

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Dante's Inferno
« on: July 14, 2010, 08:05:32 PM »
Have any of you ever read this? I just finished it last night. The 9th circle was epic
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2010, 08:51:09 PM »
I read the Divine Comedy, years and years ago now.  I thought it was a pretty good read, if a bit demented.  I should give it another look.  It's probably been 20+ years since I set eyes on it.
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2010, 09:59:55 PM »
I've got it in "Xolik's Big Pile o'Future Reading." It's right after "Last Words."
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2010, 02:44:45 AM »
I read The Divine Comedy a year or two ago.

Well, I should say I read The Inferno, because I gave up on the other 2 books. Hell is so much more interesting than the nicer places.

Also I should say I listened to it rather than read it, so I didn't have the advantage of annotations. Apparently, a lot of the hapless denizens of The Inferno were sly caricatures of celebrities of the time.

There are a few excellent Dante sites, but the ELF site is best, I think. You can read TDC with the original Italian and English side-by-side, and even choose between 2 English translations (not to mention various other languages):

http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2010, 11:35:59 AM »
Divine comedy?  Isn't that what John Waters specializes in?
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2010, 11:44:44 AM »
Somebody should analyze who Dante writes like...
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2010, 01:25:02 PM »
Apparently, he writes like H.G. Wells.

(Though this could change depending who the translator of the story was).
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2010, 02:59:30 PM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on July 15, 2010, 11:44:44 AM
Somebody should analyze who Dante writes like...

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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2010, 04:13:47 PM »
Ok.  Now someone needs to rewrite "Clerks" as if Dante Alighieri wrote it...

[in the fires of Hell] "I'm not even supposed to BE here today!"
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2010, 04:32:14 PM »
Nice!  So it would be in Italian with English subtitles.
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2010, 12:59:33 AM »
The Divine Comedy is my favourite piece of classic lit. Seriously, the fact that in a very religious world, that Dante Aligherti wasnt hung for his portrayal of hell. However, its truly an epic love story. I can only say that I wish I could do that for a girl.


However, I've played DI twice through, to pickup the Xbox Achivements I missed the first play through. I loved it, it was incredible, the sheer amount of translation from story, to violent laced gameplay.

I still shudder at lust. Tounge nipples that shoot dead babies. So sexy.

....I didnt say that.
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2010, 05:25:35 PM »
i want to get it with the video game cover on it
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Re: Dante's Inferno
« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2010, 04:19:39 PM »
I am afraid I haven’t read this one Must try and read it though I don’t much care for the theme I enjoy books with a lighter theme though I know that tastes differ There has been a few books mentioned here and I am sure that they are all good in their own right and will try to have a look at them sometime In the meantime, hope to read more of such topics here again
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