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Divine Comedy
Divine Comedy | Dante Aligieri
Comprised of three books - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Dante's Divine Comedy follows Dante Alighieri's epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, and heaven.Divine Comedy began as a project in 1308 and ended in 1320, the year before Dante's death. Told in first person, Dante follows the poet Virgil through the rings of hell and purgatory. The Divine Comedy is a highly allegorical text and renowned as one of the most influential Italian masterpieces in literature.This classic translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the first to be published by an American author and is a staple in every library. With this accurate and eloquent translation, the beauty of Dante's amazing epic poetry can be fully appreciated. Inspiration to a slew or popular authors and poets, Divine Comedy is well remembered and Gustave Dore's illustrations bring Dante's masterpiece to life.
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Jen2
The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri
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Not bad.

tpixie Oh! Good for you! 4w
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dabbe
The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri
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#BookBinge
#AuthorSharesYrInitials
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

If you can't see the image, it's the tagged book. 😃

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 8mo
IndoorDame Distinguished company! 8mo
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TheBookgeekFrau Well, damn; I never knew Dante had a last name 🧐 8mo
mcctrish Slowly a few pics are coming back 👏🏻👏🏻 it‘s like described posting for the sight impaired ( and I mean no offence by that 😬) 8mo
dabbe @IndoorDame I wish! 🤣🤣🤣 8mo
dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau I knew it started with an A, but I had to look up how to spell it! 🤣🤣🤣 8mo
dabbe @mcctrish No worries! 🤣🤣🤣 8mo
Eggs Well done 👍🏼 📚🤩 8mo
dabbe @Eggs 🤩🤗😍 8mo
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Pip2
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After reading Dante‘s trilogy of the Divine Comedy I am ready to mail my copy to my cousin who enjoyed the inferno. He has not read Purgatorio and Paradiso yet and I hope he will better appreciate the other two as much as the Inferno. I for one enjoyed very little and wanted to know from my fellow readers, Do you you keep books you read and disliked? I did for some time but have started to keep only books that I have enjoyed and will reread again.

tpixie I‘m trying to purge as many as I can after I read them. 3w
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quietlycuriouskate
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Hello, Littens!
It's been quite the fortnight. Mr K and I enjoyed a lovely week on the coast to celebrate my 50th.
We got back to find that his mum (who has been poorly for several months) had taken a drastic turn for the worse. She had emergency surgery this morning but it's still touch-and-go as to whether she'll pull through.
My daughter made me these fantastic Dante stickers from one of her digital paintings. 😍

RaeLovesToRead I'm so sorry to hear about your mother-in-law. Sending well wishes 💕💕 Fantastic stickers and Happy Birthday 🎁 13mo
squirrelbrain I didn‘t realise it was your 50th! Sounds like you had a lovely break but I‘m sorry to hear about your MiL. Thinking of you. 13mo
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Dragon Happy 50th. Glad you were able to get away to celebrate. Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law , my thoughts are with you 💐 13mo
Bookwomble Wishing you mum-in-law well 💖 13mo
quietlycuriouskate Thank you, Michael! @Bookwomble 13mo
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TheKidUpstairs
Divine Comedy | Dante Aligieri
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#OnThisDay in 1451 a manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy was sold in London. The manuscript (now known as MS Hamilton 207) is known to have changed hands from one Italian merchant to another while in London, and is the first copy of the Commedia to be definitively placed in Britain. Marginalia includes the note: "I bought this book in London'' with further notation suggesting the date acquired. It now resides in Berlin. #HistoryGetsLIT

Graywacke ❤️ 2y
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Cazxxx
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Challenging myself to read this one next. Have you read it?

SRWCF I haven't read it, but I own it in Italian. I've been wanting to challenge myself to read it, too! 2y
Cazxxx @SRWCF I hope you get round to it too! I‘ve always been a bit nervous to read this one 😅 2y
suvata I just signed up for a free lecture course on this. Maybe you would be interested also: Thank you for enrolling in Hillsdale College‘s new free online course, “Dante's Divine Comedy.”

You can begin watching lectures at this link:

https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/dantes-divine-comedy
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rachelk I studied it in college but that was so long ago I scarcely remember… 2y
SRWCF @Cazxxx haha! Definitely not a fluffy beach read! 👹👺👹 2y
Cazxxx @suvata oh thank you, I‘ll have a look at that 😊 2y
Cazxxx @SRWCF I didn‘t think so 😂 2y
tpixie @suvata oh! Thanks for the link! 3w
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keithlafo
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I wasn‘t very interested in the religious zeal here, but as a horror writer and enthusiast, the imagery is remarkably stark. Honestly, this felt modern at times, given certain images that are conjured (particularly throughout Inferno).

Haven‘t read this since high school, so I appreciated the opportunity to go back now.

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quietlycuriouskate
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Dante haul (with Virgil, naturally)! 😍
It took me thirty years to pick up Dante for a second time and now, less than a year later, I've gone all out. 😆
God, I'm middle-aged!

squirrelbrain That‘s a lot of Dante! I‘ve never read, should I?! 3y
quietlycuriouskate @squirrelbrain Everyone should read Dante! ? Seriously, though, he wouldn't be at the top of my "books to recommend to friends" list. I love him, but then I'm weird. 3y
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AkashaVampie
The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri
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My 15 yr old got this from B&N today. He is thinking he wants to start collecting these B&N Exclusives. He was having a hard time picking just one.

@ElizaMarie @AsYouWish @jb72

AkashaVampie @BookishMarginalia it's so pretty. Even the sides of the pages are golden colored. 3y
BookishMarginalia Those are gorgeous editions to collect. 3y
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AkashaVampie @BookishMarginalia I know. He wanted to get 3 today but decided to only do 1. 3y
ElizaMarie ooo I have a couple of these! They are super pretty! 3y
AkashaVampie @ElizaMarie which ones? 3y
ElizaMarie @AkashaVampie I know i have the Jurassic Park one, an Edgar Allen Poe one, Alice in Wonderland, I want to say I have a Stephen King one. I think It? 3y
AkashaVampie @ElizaMarie the 3 he wanted was Alice In Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, and this one. But he says he wanted to collect them all. 3y
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TiminCalifornia
Divine Comedy | Dante Aligieri
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One bingo for May! Luckily the free spaces aligned and I was able to drop in some Netgalley books. Overall a successful month of reading. #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Great month!!! 3y
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annamatopoetry
The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri
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and sometimes I deliver on tumblr.

(I don't want to think about the combined memeology and lit history knowledge this requires to be funny, I just like it)

annamatopoetry I just found out that tumblr is the only social media platform that celebrates the ides of march, which proves that it's superior. 3y
batsy Tumblr is superior. I saw the "Beware the eyes of Marge" meme and cackled. 3y
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quietlycuriouskate
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😍 Not only three items on Dante (and a cover by William Blake) but Keats, too! This week's TLS promises to be a proper good'un. 😊

BarbaraBB That cover draws me in immediately 3y
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quietlycuriouskate
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In a word, awesome. I've been re-reading the Divine Comedy since August and am blown away by the vision, scope and intricate structure. I wish I could read Dante's Italian, to get more of the poetry. Paradiso is v. theological: I'd be lost without the notes and Great Courses lectures. I liked Purgatorio best, for it's practicable wisdom, discussion of the nature and role of poetry, and for it's view of sin (hate that word!) as love gone wrong. 👇

quietlycuriouskate Honestly I'd be feeling bereft right now, having reached the final tercet, but there's a saying in Dante circles: once you've read the Commedia, then you are ready to read the Commedia! I hope not to leave it thirty years next time. 3y
BarbaraBB Wow great review. I read parts of it in university but never the whole. 3y
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quietlycuriouskate
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Dante and I go back a long way: not quite to the early 14th Century, granted, but here we are in Verona in 1996.

Cathythoughts Love this ❤️ 3y
TrishB Me too ❤️ 3y
BarbaraBB And me ❤️ 3y
JazzFeathers Oh, l never expected to see my city in my Litsy feed 😂 3y
quietlycuriouskate @JazzFeathers I'll be astounded if I see Gloucester in mine! 😀 3y
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quietlycuriouskate
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I wasn't expecting to enjoy Purgatory more than the Inferno, but so it was. It got full-on psychedelic towards the end, though! (I was glad of translator Mark Musa's commentary, and the lecture from The Great Courses, to make sense of that part.) And I am still sad that we had to bid Virgil farewell.
On to the Paradiso, then... (if I can just get the chorus of "Paradise City" out of my head.)

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quietlycuriouskate
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It's thirty years since I first read Dante! 😱 Goodness knows what I made of it as a teenager; this time around (and despite my enduring difficulties with the whole concept of hell) I'm really enjoying it, and all the more so for listening to the fascinating lectures from The Great Courses. On to Purgatory we go!

GingerAntics I‘m about to start this, actually. 4y
Lcsmcat I bought this Great Course a bit ago but haven‘t started it yet. What translation do they recommend? 4y
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quirkyreader
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#MountTBRchallenge Number 28. This book was full of Oh My! moments.

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cassareada
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Guys, I am HARD CORE geeking out!!! 700 years after finishing The Divine Comedy, and then dying a year later, Dante FINALLY has his own official day 💜💜💜 March 25 is most definitely going to be a day worth celebrating.

https://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/italy-establishes-national-dante-da...

Graywacke Good timing, I‘m reading DC now. ☺️ 4y
cassareada @Graywacke awesome 😁 I'm on the hunt for a good translation of La Vita Nuova. I have a Dante collection that is ever growing. 4y
Graywacke @cassiopia i read Mark Musa‘s last year - it was an old library book with Italian and English poetry, but only English prose. His essay afterwards was really excellent. (But, I didn‘t research other than check what my library had. Oh, also I learned that searching on amazon for it is really confusing and frustrating.) 4y
Graywacke @cassiopia also - cool that you have so much focus on Dante, that you have a collection. 4y
cassareada @Graywacke I'm using my resources at work to look for available translations. I'll have to do more research on the translators themselves too. Ahh, thank you. I have an obsession with Italian literature. I have multiple versions of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio as well. And I'm on the hunt for a leather bound edition of Pinocchio. 4y
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Jari-chan
Divine Comedy | Dante Aligieri
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My edition of The Divine Comedy has a #redcover. And a red fox that got attached 🦊

#Fallisbooked

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️📚❤️ 4y
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Jari-chan
Divine Comedy | Dante Aligieri
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I actually did it - I read the Divine Comedy! There sure are a lot of Italians in Hell 🙈 But still... I'm a little proud 😅

#BookAWeekChallenge

Buechersuechtling Rightly so. I tried to read it years ago – but I gave in soon. I could not at all cope with the style. 4y
Jari-chan @Buechersuechtling It sure isn't an easy read. I'm happy to have found a good translation otherwise I would have given up as well... 😅 4y
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keepingupwiththepenguins
The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri
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I had mixed feelings about this one, making it hard to give a review, because Inferno (the first part) was GREAT! Hilarious, engaging, entertaining, loved it... only things started to go downhill in Purgatorio, and Paradiso really stank. In sum, I'd say pick up a copy of Inferno and read that, but you can safely give the rest of it a miss. Full review here: http://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-divine-comedy-dante-alighieri/ #Poetry #Classics

serllolo Have you read Vita Nuova (The New Life)? Is kind of a preparation of The Divine Comedy, very short and easy to read. I read it when I was in college (I did a short paper about it, in fact) and I really liked it. 5y
keepingupwiththepenguins @zefmii Ooooh, no, I haven't! Thank you for the tip!! ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
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Tives30
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I enjoyed it, the translation was fairly easy to read and was an incredibly interesting story. I would definitely read it again.

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Ross
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An epic and deeply moving Period Piece of Theological Fan-Fiction that is still a fundamental influence on modern mythology. Don‘t just read it, re-read it. There are some good audiobooks of it out there, too.

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jenniferw88
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#highwaytohell #maymoviemagic @Cinfhen @rohit-sawant

Sorry Cindy, you have another month of prompts from me! (I'll try not to use you-know-who this month though lol!)

Cinfhen I better get at least one a week or else I‘ll be worried!!! 5y
jenniferw88 @Cinfhen 🤣😢🤣 5y
gradcat Nice one 👍 5y
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fedebooks
Pickpick

If I weren't Italian, I would learn the language just to appreciate this work of art.

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SailorMoon
La divina commedia | Dante Alighieri
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I've just been to the theatre to watch the Divina Commedia - Opera Musical.
I'll never get tired of saying how great this poem is!
If it ever hits your Country, make sure not to miss it!!!

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Best poem ever written.

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SailorMoon
La divina commedia | Dante Alighieri
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I'm not sure anyone in the world will ever be deserving and noble enough to review a masterpiece such as "La Divina Commedia" by Dante Alighieri.
So I'll just say this: I read it in the original language since I'm so lucky to call it my own (which makes it easier not to miss his poetical intention!), and every word is pure poetry. No book, no poem, no other literature can ever be as marvellous as this.
I found Inferno to be the best part.

Crazeedi Awesome that you read in original language 5y
SailorMoon @Crazeedi I'm Italian, so it was easier for me! Although it's not contemporary Italian, so it was pretty challenging even so! 😉 5y
Crazeedi @SailorMoon still that is pretty darn cool. It would be like me reading old English I guess 5y
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SailorMoon @Crazeedi Totally the same! And I envy you guys who can read old English poems because I am sure they must be amazing ❤ 5y
Crazeedi @SailorMoon ❤️😊👍 5y
cassareada The Inferno is my favorite part too. I have 2 different copies of that part alone and a copy of the entire comedia as well. 5y
Erofan Great review! ❤👍 5y
SailorMoon @Erofan thanks! You should read it! ;) 5y
SailorMoon @cassiopia that's wonderful!!! I really did love studying it back in high school... 5y
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ForCuriosity
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“ if one text can produce a second , perhaps the producing need never end, and no prior need be forgotten”

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elpintor1
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For whoever reads this and is kind enough to care, i want to say that i don't read as much as others but do like and i give a lot of thought to the things that i read. I consider every aspect of things like ; the characters, the way they are developed or how they behave according to the circumstances, the setting ofcourse, the story and so on. For now i want to keep this simple, i love the "divine comedy" of Dante.

#books#comment#dante#night

RaimeyGallant Nice review. And welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Some of us put together Litsy tips to help new Littens navigate the site. It's the link in my bio on my page in case you need it. Or if you prefer how-to videos, @chelleo put some together at the link in her bio. @LitsyWelcomeWagon 6y
Eggs Welcome to Litsy 👋🏻😊 6y
elpintor1 @RaimeyGallant alright!!, i will do that because i do needed😁👍 6y
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elpintor1 @Eggs thank you thank you.👌 6y
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elpintor1 @rather_be_reading thank you😁 6y
elpintor1 @Wife 👍✌ 6y
elpintor1 @Bamazin 👍😁 6y
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Bookwomble
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For the next 19 days, BBC Radio 4 has the three parts of The Divine Comedy available on the iPlayer. I've not listened to it myself yet, but it stars John Hurt amongst the cast, so that's a sign of quality right there. I've copied a link below, though I'm not sure if it's accessible outside the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xtvdp

saresmoore Well, that‘s fun! 6y
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Sophoclessweetheart
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It‘s the weekend so that means I‘ll be leaving my beautiful home again until Sunday night. It‘s always nice to leave everything behind and get away now and again but I‘m really not feeling in a place to be anywhere but Home right now. I‘m wondering if I want to haul Dante with me or not. It‘s a monster tome of a book to carry about but I think I want to reread it. Decisions decisions! #dantealighieri #classicsstudent #bookaddict #booklover

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Got stuck at the library because of a huge storm so I decided to take advantage and start The Divine Comedy by Dante. I've never really read epic poetry before but I'm enjoying it so far. #rainyday #classic #epicpoetry #poetry

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HerlockSholmes

I'm really enjoying this! Dante's verse is beautiful! I'm only on inferno at the minute but I was just wondering who else has read it and what your favourite parts were! What inspired you to read it? 😄 #Dante #inferno

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JoeStalksBeck
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Two of my favorite books illustrated ❤️

RadicalReader @JoeStalksBeck love the look of Devon‘s Divine Comedy 6y
batsy Oooh! Lovely. Coveting that version of Paradise Lost 😍 6y
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Aimeesue
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Found this beautiful 1948 edition at the thrift shop yesterday- complete with #marginalia. ❤️ #oldcoolbooks #vintagebooks

Aimeesue And that‘s my window box lettuce. Thanks to all the rain, there will be salad later! 6y
jillrhudy Lovely! 😀 6y
Linsy So lovely!!! ♥️ 6y
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DivaDiane
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#Reading Resolutions @Jess7 #red

Getting a late start on this, but these are the ones I find the most fun! Get ready for the rainbow!

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katrina
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I‘m not sure if it‘s the translator or just my epic hatred of epic poetry but I am so fucking happy I only have a third of this left. (Trying to not think of how long that third might take me)

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katrina

Not gonna lie it gives me an inordinate amount of joy to have Greek “Heroes” (who are all really pieces of shit) placed in Hell

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Abandon all hope ye who enter here

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Can you tell that this is not my first reading of the Commedia? One of my favorites. Something strange happened on Twitter Argentina: one December day a guy said "What if we all read 1 chapter of the Commedia a day? In a 100 days we finish it!".
Thus, #Dante2018 was born and thousands of us are reading the Commedia together!

*Did you read it? What's your favorite classic?

tpixie Welcome!!!! 6y
tpixie What a great #BuddyRead ! 6y
Louise What a great idea! Brava, Argentina! 👏🏼👏🏼😆 6y
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Lilithcat17
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Found this illustrated masterpiece @ BAM. Going on my 2018 reading list.

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DivaDiane
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LeahBergen Pretty! 6y
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JoeStalksBeck
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Lcsmcat What a beautiful edition! 6y
JoeStalksBeck @Lcsmcat thanks! It‘s all illustrated inside. It‘s gorgeous! This is my favorite book ever 6y
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JoeStalksBeck
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#Novemberbythenumbers #ten Canto X from my favorite book❤️

MrBook Can you email me at secretsantagoespostal17 at gmail? 6y
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amrrruuuta
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"All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"

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JoeStalksBeck
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Breaking out my study notebook for the Dante #lenghtylit read with @Tiffy_Reads ‼️‼️🔥 so excited ‼️‼️😱🔥🔥📖📚

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