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[1331993902] Dante - The Divine Comedy

Anonymous Sat 17 Mar 2012 18:18:00 No.23972 View View Reply Original Report

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How am I meant to read this?

Lookup the references as I go or read it all through once then read it again with the references?

Looking up the references really interrupts the flow.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Mar 2012 06:12:00 No.23980 Report

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Fuck it, watch the movie.

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Anonymous Mon 21 May 2012 04:45:00 No.24093 Report

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Research before reading is what I did. Read classical literature (some Virgil,etc. I'm Catholic so I liked digging into some of the other religious works at the time.)

Place the novel. Read the history of the era.

Skim the references. If you get a basic feel but ignore the devil in some of the details you'll be alright.

I thought it was an amazing read. Hope this helps anon.

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Anonymous Wed 23 May 2012 05:50:00 No.24097 Report

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What I do is I read the narrative once without stopping so that I can get the narrative, then go back again and read while looking up the references so that I can get the context.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Jun 2012 00:06:00 No.24103 Report

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>>3
This is too difficult, I give up.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Jun 2012 19:06:00 No.24108 Report

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Read all the pieces the references are excerpts of then read the book.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Aug 2012 08:00:00 No.24199 Report

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>>1

I'd recommend the Signet Classics edition. It is a very good, rhyming translation by John Ciardi, and it has an annotated note section after every Canto explaining stuff.

I really loved the books; the Inferno was phenomenal, Pugatorio was deeply moving, and Paradiso was the most moving book I've ever read. I'd recommend it to anyone with an IQ over 120.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2012 17:31:00 No.24376 Report

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>>5
If you don't like it this way then simply read it without paying too much attention to the references or researching. Still enjoyable that way

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Anonymous Wed 12 Dec 2012 00:57:00 No.24383 Report

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All Italian forms of Christianity are actually Roman paganism. The ironic punishments make sense only if you know about Roman mythology. This is also why the Italian pope approved of Hitler's reign of terror. They never believed that the Jews were significant. Zeus chose the Italians.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Dec 2012 14:10:00 No.24410 Report

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Anonymous Sat 12 Jan 2013 15:56:00 No.24422 Report

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Dude... Hollander translation. Dedicated and faithful translation on the left page, easy to understand and absorb explanation on the right page. Blows your mind.

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Anonymous Tue 15 Jan 2013 02:02:00 No.24423 Report

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>>9
Zeus was Greek, goddamnit! The head god for the Romans was Jupiter!

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