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You wake to find yourself in a dark wood, your path lost. It’s the beginning of every creepy fairy tale, every B-horror movie, every…mid life crisis ending in spiritual salvation? Perhaps many of us can relate to waking up one morning with a nagging feeling of uncertainty as to what we value anymore, or realizing the extant . . . → Read More: Day 3: What Would Dante Do? (Selva Oscura: Canto 1) (Divine) Comedy The original name that Dante gave to his epic poem did not include the adjective. It was simply Commedia. (see below) “Divine” was tacked on by critics some couple hundred years later, and it stuck. Comedy vs. Tragedy Why “Comedy”? Mostly, to distinguish from tragedy. Recall that Inferno is only one part of a three part epic. . . . → Read More: Day 2: Know Before You Go This is a question of no definitive answer. Why read any text, especially a difficult one in translation? Even taking into account Dante’s tragic-beautiful rendering the 9 circles of Hell and his impeccable, ingenious language, metaphor, and allusion, descending into the depths of the City of Dis is probably not the average reader’s idea of “pleasure . . . → Read More: Day 1: Why Read the Inferno? Welcome to my online experience of reading the Divina Commedia in the 21st century. While originally intended as a community-oriented book club-type reading blog for summer 2010, I have decided that it may be more effective to encourage readers to jump in where they so feel compelled, rather than follow a strict day-by-day regiment. In this . . . → Read More: Welcome to the Inferno |
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