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Dante - The Divine Comedy: Inferno / Patron-Only Early Access / Ad-Free (Patreon)

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2021-04-08 19:49:29
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Thrilled to finally get to this one. 

Many thanks to Giulia for the recommendation of the John Ciardi translation. 

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Dante - The Divine Comedy: Inferno BOOK REVIEW / Ad-Free

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John Fey

I read Dante in early high school. He is one of several authors that ignited my love for writing and literature. I think everyone needs to read the Divine Comedy to understand Western literature as a whole. His work was so powerful, it influenced Christian/Catholic theology. Imagine writing something so good it becomes what people think the afterlife is like. That's the magic of writing.

Marjorie Dieudonne

I have a hardcover copy of this book. It's on my list of books to read this year. Awesome review Cliff! Have a great day😉

Shane Caswell

Dante’s Inferno will always have a special place in my heart, as I would argue it’s the novel which sparked my interest in reading literature to grow as a person rather than just reading to escape or to get away. Great review as always, Cliff.

Derrik

This year is the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. March 25th was recently designated as Dantedì because it was determined to be the day Dante enters the inferno. It can't be overstated how pivotal the Comedy was in birthing the Italian language.

Kabir Wadhwa

Howdy, Mr. Sargent, have you ever thought of doing any podcasts?

Darius

Amazing what an enormous impact Dante still has after all these centuries. Have a look at this episode as an example: in 2015 a well-known writer and a very respected translator of medieval texts, one Dieter Kühn, died in Germany. Dante’s Divine Comedy always was one of his passions. When they searched through his estate, they found drafts of a new translation of the DC, or at least fragments of it. But the thing is, he obviously was not only aiming for a „simple“ translation of Dante‘s book, but moreover was trying to add own figures and ideas into the plot; so e.g. Kühn had Jacopo, Dante‘s son, join Vergil, already a pretty fragile figure, to descend again into the dark and hot depths of hell. Kühn was frantically working on this project, producing at least five versions, full of notes and comments. This he did in the winter before he died at the age of 80. Imagine, Kühn sometimes dragging himself to the desk, trying to write down his thoughts on death and a possible afterlife (which he didn‘t believe in), and coming to the conclusion (Kühn couldn‘t walk any longer at this point of time): „The only continuing walking motion is to be found virtually in hell, as Dante has described, canto for canto, terzine for terzine.“ This to me seems to be as much drama as literature itself can produce. And what would have come out of it, if Mr. Kühn had lived long enough to bring his version of the DC to a (lucky) end?!