Reviews - Divine Comédie: Tome 3: Le Paradis

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Divine Comédie: Tome 3: Le Paradis

Dante Alighieri

3.89 AVERAGE

bluepuppy's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book took me 9 months to read with 2 bookmarks, 1 for the text and 1 for the notes! It was enormously rewarding and a massive insight into the thinking and preoccupations of the 1300s. There are strands and influences of The Divine Comedy everywhere in western art and literature and wish I had read it years ago!

pemdas97's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

vee22's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jelina's review against another edition

4.0

So elaborate. While I do appreciate Dores illustrations and the world building Dante creates the flowery prose that Longfellow translate the verses too were hard to comprehend in the beginning till the end I had to look up many historical and scholastic references and yet I still see how important this work is digesting christian doctrine and how ot shapes both Divine grace and justice in terms of not just personal devotion but that of grace given by others

soniavzk's review against another edition

5.0

i thoroughly enjoyed this journey; the prose and writing style was absolutely stunning and sketched out “hell” in such vivid yet horrid imagery that i can see why this image has persisted for so long. the allegorical meanings throughout were well-explained by translator notes which greatly helped in understanding some of the more nuanced or subtle complexities. i have yet to read the other parts so i cannot compare but this poem was brilliant.