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tiffanyslack 's review for:
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
Yes! I finally finished the entire Divine Comedy. I started many months ago and got stalled halfway through Purgatorio, but then I took the free online class from Hillsdale College, and that gave me the context and motivation to pick it up and continue to the end. And wow, Paradiso was actually quite stunning. Dante had a view of God (truly awe-inspiring and beyond what we can understand or that we can express in language) that desperately needs to be revived in our day. I didn't give it five stars for two reasons - while much, much of the poem is really applicable and interesting for today, the sheer amount of Florentine politics is excessive, and while I really liked this translation by Robin Kirkpatrick, I thought the notes were lacking in some areas.