I finished reading "Paradiso" in Barberino Val d'Elsa, about 20 miles south of Florence, late in the afternoon on a wonderfully sunny day in 1996. I read it in Italian, using a bilingual edition — I had taken a course in Italian before we took our trip. I remember stopping after reading one passage in particular and marveling at what a great poet Dante was. I shall try to find the time to read it again starting on May 1.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
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… Let’s Get Ready To Read Dante’s Paradiso | The American Conservative. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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I started Inferno on Easter, finished it yesterday, and began Purgatorio today. I'm sure I should linger more, but my "five cantos (plus translator notes) a day" schedule seems to be working for my first time through. (That is, I'm sure I'm missing a lot, esp. since this is a prose translation (Durling), but I'm also sure that I'll return to it via another translation.)
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