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311 reviews for:
La Divina Commedia: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Melville Best Anderson, Dante Alighieri
3.86 AVERAGE
311 reviews for:
La Divina Commedia: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Melville Best Anderson, Dante Alighieri
3.86 AVERAGE
if some dude gave me tour of the underworld back to heaven i’d catch feelings too. definitely gonna miss virgil.
Moving picture of the chains that sin places on us, of the hope we should have for our true callings, of the way that sanctification ought to work its way out through our lives, and of the grace that sets us free.
Rating: 4.5 Stars (Excellent).
Also read February 2009, March 2012.
Rating: 4.5 Stars (Excellent).
Also read February 2009, March 2012.
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
bro wrote more biblical fan fic
challenging
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was still Dante, but it wasn't Inferno.
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I didn't like it as much as Inferno maybe because the imagery wasn't as exciting, but it's still a good book. It had its interesting parts as Dante's dreams, particularly the meeting with the mermaid. Or even that mysterious voice they hear before finding that carriage that represents the church. Some of the last chants were better than the first ones.
I honestly laughed at the part where Beatrice gets mad at him and starts telling him he shouldn't have looked at other women. If this were a book from our times, the ideas exposed would be exactly the opposite way of thinking (moral relativism, here we go). Justifying that a man (or a woman, before someone starts calling me a feminist) can look as much (wo)men as (s)he wants to because ~you can't commit a sin with your eyes~, and your lover has died so you have all the right in the world to do so. And it was the realistic part. Wouldn't a real lover feel offended by that kind of attitude after all?
The beautiful descriptions about the poets from the dolce stil nuovo are also a thing that stands out a lot and it's a really good thing that I can understand most of them thanks to the notes and the contents I have seen during classes.
Still I can't take the high idealization Dante makes of his lover, at least the part where she asks him to admit and wash his sins saved this part of the trilogy.
I honestly laughed at the part where Beatrice gets mad at him and starts telling him he shouldn't have looked at other women. If this were a book from our times, the ideas exposed would be exactly the opposite way of thinking (moral relativism, here we go). Justifying that a man (or a woman, before someone starts calling me a feminist) can look as much (wo)men as (s)he wants to because ~you can't commit a sin with your eyes~, and your lover has died so you have all the right in the world to do so. And it was the realistic part. Wouldn't a real lover feel offended by that kind of attitude after all?
The beautiful descriptions about the poets from the dolce stil nuovo are also a thing that stands out a lot and it's a really good thing that I can understand most of them thanks to the notes and the contents I have seen during classes.
Still I can't take the high idealization Dante makes of his lover, at least the part where she asks him to admit and wash his sins saved this part of the trilogy.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Ciardi's translation is magnificent. Tons of footnotes to make sense of almost every line. Agree with Alan Jacobs that it's the best picture of sanctification .... ( especially if you like Thomism).