Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Inferno - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

The next reading selection is Dante's Inferno, we gather on February 8, 2009 to discuss this material.
The Divine Comedy
is composed of three canticas (or “cantiche”) — Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) — composed each of 33 cantos (or “canti”). The very first canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally not considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100.
The poet tells in the first person his travel through the three realms of the dead, lasting during the Easter Triduum in the spring of 1300. (Summary from Wikipedia)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Illustrations by Gustave Doré (1832-1883).

These video links are to the first twenty canti of Inferno, from the LibriVox recording library and a video channel on YouTube, enjoy.
Canto I Canto II Canto III Canto IV Canto V Canto VI Canto VII Canto VIII Canto IX Canto X Canto XI Canto XII Canto XIII (Part 1 of 2) Canto XIII (Part 2 of 2) Canto XIV Canto XV Canto XVI Canto XVII Canto XVIII Canto XIX and Canto XX

There are lots of great resources in the web.

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