| 单词 | Divine Comedy |
| 例句 | “Do you know,” he said, “what Julian says about the Divine Comedy?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He died before publishing his “Divine Comedy”’s “Purgatorio” and “Paradiso,” soured into a religious zealot who renounced fiction and burned his unfinished work. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z His literary newsletters delighted his fans with humorous jabs at “big wine” and the critics who rewarded higher alcohol with higher point scores, including a lengthy riff on Dante’s “Divine Comedy” called, “The Vinferno.” Reflecting the hardships of the business, an iconoclastic critic of ‘Big Wine’ sells his indie vineyard 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Using a structure that borrows from Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” it has a vibe that, in Mr. Counts’s telling, owes something to Ridley Scott’s futuristic classic “Blade Runner” and the TV drama “Mr. Robot.” From Dante to ‘Walking Dead,’ He’s a Master of Immersive Theater 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Although arguably, it was Dante’s Divine Comedy that helped to formalise the association of financial failure and those doomed to exist beyond the reach of the sun. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z It suddenly hit me that the whole play is Crimp's attempt at a modern Divine Comedy. In the Republic of Happiness – review 2012-12-13T18:15:55Z The work is set to debut July 18 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in conjunction with the exhibition “The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists.” Bridging the differences between people 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Arguably his greatest achievement is not his own poetry but his translation of all three books of “The Divine Comedy,” highly regarded even today for its accuracy and fidelity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America’s No. 1 Literary Celebrity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z He also founded his own company, the Gale Gates et al., based in Brooklyn, for which he directed “So Long Ago I Can’t Remember: A Divine Comedy” and “The Field of Mars.” ArtsBeat: Michael Counts to Join 3-Legged Dog Theater Company 2014-01-02T17:10:36Z Renowned critic and poet Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy. AUDIO: Clive James on his obsession with Dante 2013-07-17T14:58:03Z Dante’s “Divine Comedy” was written in the 14th century. Halloween horror translated for ballet: How 'Inferno' will turn Dante into dance 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z However, to promote the Divine Comedy's latest album, Bang Goes the Knighthood, Hannon is – for the first time – touring alone. Neil Hannon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z James will be bringing his new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to the festival while Vine will be taking part in a question and answer session. Literature festival reveals line-up 2013-08-11T17:18:58Z Highlights from the collection will return to Britain for this show, including Botticelli’s renderings of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” What's on This Week Around the World 1461-08-09T05:00:00Z Notre Musique, Godard's most recent picture to receive U.S. distribution, is structured after Dante's Divine Comedy, with sections for hell, purgatory, and paradise. Film: The Problem With 'Breathless' 2010-06-05T01:58:00Z The "Divine Comedy" follows the journey of a pilgrim across the three realms of the Christian afterlife – hell, purgatory and paradise. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z There are echoes too of "The Divine Comedy" and "The Magic Flute," of Joel Chandler Harris' fables and Carl Sandburg's "Rootabaga Stories." Welcome to a land of enchantment in 'Over the Garden Wall' 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z They frequently echo their great poetical-theological forebear, Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” in that the principal character journeys through a highly symbolic landscape, meeting strange semi-allegorical personages before finally attaining a moment of epiphany, self-understanding or revelation. Review | ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ may have sold 596 copies in its first printing, but it deserves a wider audience 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The drawings illustrate Dante’s masterpiece, “The Divine Comedy,” an epic poem in three parts recounting a pilgrim’s travels through hell, purgatory and heaven. Italy’s Uffizi opens Dante anniversary with virtual exhibit 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z In a survey of 800 people, Mr. Marineau said, 83 percent said they had heard of Dante’s “Inferno,” the first book of his “Divine Comedy,” but fewer than 20 percent could explain its contents. 2010-01-30T05:20:00Z “Everything can be seen in a kind of larger perspective, referring to ‘The Divine Comedy’ of Dante.” Salzburg Festival projects return to normal next summer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Copies of the “Divine Comedy” in 60 languages are housed nearby, and organizers envision they also will be read by foreign tourists as soon as post-pandemic travel resumes. Daily readings at tomb honor Dante 700 years after his death 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on September 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the "Divine Comedy," a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Fronting each chapter is an arresting late 15th-century woodcut illustrating one or other of the Italian poet’s imaginary encounters with the dead in hell, purgatory and heaven from the “Divine Comedy”. Cabinet of curiosity 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The Divine Comedy is not, perhaps, as offensive as he imagines it to be, and certainly not as good as it ought to be. The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine ? review 2012-02-10T22:35:01Z After his descent into the terrors of the "Inferno" and "Purgatorio," Dante ascended, in his "Divine Comedy," to the concentric spheres surrounding Earth. L.A. Master Chorale caps its 50th season with three new works 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Dark in a different sense is Dante's Divine Comedy. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z Dante spent years composing “Divine Comedy” during his banishment from his native Florence, the home of the vernacular he elevated to a literary language through his poetry. Daily readings at tomb honor Dante 700 years after his death 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Classic mime, movie horror, military formation all come into play in Synetic’s interpretation of the “Inferno” portion of Dante Alighieri’s allegorical epic poem “The Divine Comedy.” Synetic Theater takes us all to hell 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The idea of making a ballet of “The Divine Comedy” came from Adès, whom McGregor approached in 2014, after using his music for two dance works. An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z When Dante was exiled from his native Florence in the early 1300s, he found sanctuary in Verona, where he worked to write “Paradiso,” the last part of “The Divine Comedy.” Feasting in Verona, Italy’s city of Romeo and ravioli 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The work, which features new choreography from Jones, was inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy” and arrives in time for Halloween. Halloween horror translated for ballet: How 'Inferno' will turn Dante into dance 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s never seen once and for all, it has to be interpreted again and again, like Dante’s Divine Comedy. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z Among the 600 characters appearing in the "Divine Comedy," women are the least likely to appear in the historical record. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z A successful author and poet, he was nominated for last year's Costa prize for his translation of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy. Clive James is 'saying goodbye' 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z As a result, the "Divine Comedy" is often the only accessible source of information on these women. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z There were verses from the “Divine Comedy” and symbols of a medieval bestiary in the embroidery. Gucci Has a Rave in a Cemetery 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Apart from the facade of dangling boats, which is titled "Reframe", the exhibition includes Lego-block portraits of four Florentine dissidents of the past, including Dante Alighieri, author of the mediaeval epic poem "The Divine Comedy". Boats evoking refugees hang from Italy palace in Ai Weiwei installation 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z What Dante saw gave a raw physicality to his “Divine Comedy,” setting the backdrop of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Michelangelo claimed he knew Dante's Divine Comedy – all three books of it – by heart. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z That, perhaps, is the real achievement of “Dante”: Like the poetry of “The Divine Comedy,” it seems to contain the entirety of life itself. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z In person, “Dante,” a three-part journey through the world of “The Divine Comedy” by way of Liszt and other oblique influences, was a cosmic, at times movingly spiritual and often overwhelming experience. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z So my first choice would be Dante — after all my years of studying “The Divine Comedy,” I need to ask him a lot of questions! Tina Turner: By the Book 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z There’s a reason few people remember the parts of “The Divine Comedy” that aren’t about hell. ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘The Good Place’ Took Us to Hell and Back 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Allen Mandelbaum, whose fluid, sensitive English version of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” stamped his reputation as one of the world’s premier translators of Italian and classical poetry, died on Oct. Allen Mandelbaum, Translator of ?Divine Comedy,? Dies at 85 2011-11-05T05:21:48Z I was carrying around my subway reading, a paperback copy of Clive James’ translation of The Divine Comedy. Donald Trump, Dante and the End of Your Elitist Tastes 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Langdon must follow clues related to 14th Century Italian poet Dante and his epic creation Divine Comedy. Dan Brown on his 'hurtful' reviews 2013-05-20T11:56:46Z But the Divine Comedy is livelier than endurance, and everyone knows Inferno is the best part. “Inferno,” a Movie Even Tom Hanks Couldn’t Save 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “Dead Souls” was intended as the “Inferno” in a “Divine Comedy” of the Slavs, clearing the way for a great Russian renaissance by cleansing the national spirit with “lofty ecstatic laughter.” The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z More murders follow, all modeled on deaths in the Divine Comedy. Review | If poets could solve a crime . . . 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The Divine Comedy is the supreme cultural expression of Christianity. From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy 2013-05-14T15:44:06Z His Herman Melville collection, up for auction in September at Christie’s, contains the finest book I can imagine owning: Melville’s heavily annotated copy of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy.” Love the Smell of Old Books? This Bookseller Would Like You to Leave. 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z On the roof of a museum inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” a sculptural walkway resembling a many-colored halo is attracting record-breaking crowds. Scene/Seen: A Bold New Art World Is Lighting Up Western Denmark 2011-10-14T13:30:15Z At a Divine Comedy show, I somehow struck up a conversation with someone who claimed to be a bookie. Requiem for a club: What we lose when intimate music venues close 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The quotation is attributed to the “Aeneid,” but the name Virgil has particularly Christian overtones, from Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” where the pagan poet leads a spiritual tourist through hell and purgatory. The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop Doré was a 19th century French illustrator, most famous for his wood-engraved illustrations for "The Divine Comedy," "Paradise Lost" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." 'Over the Garden Wall' gets lost in creator's imagination 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Dante's Divine Comedy was a religious allegory about man's journey towards Godliness and salvation, yet he was branded a heretic because he questioned the pope's pursuit of secular power. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z The thieves also made off with a 1569 copy of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” and books by Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton. Books worth $2.5 million stolen in a daring London heist 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Clive James spent years translating Dante's The Divine Comedy Writer and broadcaster Clive James is nominated in this year's Costa Book Awards for his translation of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy. Clive James up for Costa award 2013-11-27T02:06:32Z Thomas, however — thanks to a dive into Dante’s “Divine Comedy” — is increasingly drawn to making what one character calls a “medieval morality play.” Review: ‘The Face of an Angel’ Dabbles in Murder and Culpability 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z On Sunday evening, the Andriessen 75 festival opened at the National Gallery of Art with a concert version of “La Commedia,” an opera based on Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Music Review: A Loud, Movable Birthday Festival for Louis Andriessen 2014-04-07T21:42:16Z Though Dante the narrator ultimately achieves his goal, it takes him two more books of “The Divine Comedy” to do so. 2010-01-30T05:20:00Z “The Secondman’s Middle Stand,” in 2004, dealt with his own serious illness from a perineal infection, at 42, in the context of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Music: The Midlife Thing, the Nightmare Thing 2011-02-24T21:48:04Z Dante had just written The Divine Comedy; it was a moment of bold innovation in European culture, when the gothic age of cathedrals was reaching its climax. Hull will go to heaven for this: gallery acquires Lorenzetti's glowing Christ 2013-07-16T16:24:38Z On the linguistic level, a modern phrase sometimes breaks the narrative spell, as when Douglas says, “I believe that ship has sailed,” while nobody has ever referred to Dante’s “Divine Comedy” as “Dante Alighieri’s Trilogy.” Review | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the Dantesque dark wood that we call our mortal lives, Wilson has prescriptions for rectifying society, extrapolated from his conservative reading of The Divine Comedy. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z The two creatures, says the taxidermist, referring to Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” are his “guides through hell.” Books of The Times: Yann Martel?s ?Beatrice and Virgil,? a Holocaust Allegory 2010-04-12T21:20:00Z And Dante’s “Inferno,” The Divine Comedy’s first section, was a shout, in terza rima, against a storm of religious and political turmoil in medieval Florence. Donald Trump, Dante and the End of Your Elitist Tastes 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z After “batting around” various ideas, Adès thought of “The Divine Comedy.” An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris For someone whose own translation of the Inferno is still widely available, Sean O'Brien proved a creditably enthusiastic reviewer of Clive James's version of Dante's The Divine Comedy. Book reviews roundup: The Divine Comedy, The Son and The World Is Ever Changing 2013-07-19T18:00:00Z But also read Allen Mandelbaum's Everyman translation of The Divine Comedy that is illustrated with Botticelli's wonderful drawings. From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy 2013-05-14T15:44:06Z Dean, who hasn’t previously designed for the stage, said her initial source was Dante’s text, but she also drew upon visual representations of the Divine Comedy by Botticelli, Blake, Doré and Robert Rauschenberg. An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z And Brown has said, at least, that he wants to introduce Dante's Divine Comedy to readers, though I worry it's simply because Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that Dante wrote his autobiography "in colossal cipher". Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z The new Divine Comedy isn't an easy book either to categorise or to summarise. The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine ? review 2012-02-10T22:35:01Z The Divine Comedy, he thinks, “was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.” “Inferno,” a Movie Even Tom Hanks Couldn’t Save 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Visceral Game’s 2010 gory depiction of “Dante’s Inferno” brought life to the circles of hell in Dante Alighieri’s epic “Divine Comedy.” WATCH: Thoreau’s classic work “Walden” gets the video game treatment — yes, you heard that right 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z He intends to recite passages from The Divine Comedy and a poem he wrote for Anzac Day. Clive James is 'saying goodbye' 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Dante’s Unearthly Story Updated for the Stage “La Commedia,” ’s operatic dissection and reconstruction of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” is the centerpiece of a series of concerts devoted to the composer at this month and next. Music Review: Louis Andriessen?s ?Commedia? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-16T22:59:00Z Wilson, a noted literary biographer, uses Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” to structure this book, which focuses on the middle period of Lawrence’s life, from 1915 through 1925. 11 New Books Coming in August 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z But Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” had the advantage of drawing on theology widely accepted by his audience and not having to deal with network notes. Review: In ‘The Good Place,’ Kristen Bell Is Dead and Crabby 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z In Bill Cain’s “9 Circles,” a contemporary morality play inspired by Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” the psychic damage of war does not belong to Reeves alone, and neither do the responsibilities of conscience. Review: ‘9 Circles,’ a Soldier’s Story (and the Damage Done) 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Dante does so at the start of “The Divine Comedy”; so do people in more than one Shakespeare play. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z If The Divine Comedy is, finally, a 500-page meditation on love's ceaseless dramas, then James's translation derives its inspiration from his own nearly 50-year association with a great Italian scholar. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z As in the “Divine Comedy,” key literary figures emerge in the poem’s fiery passageways. Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Created over six years in the late 19th century and inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” it depicts three lost souls who stand at the entrance of hell. Welcome to Our City! Care to Visit the Museum? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Liszt wrote the sonata after a visit to Italy where he heard a lecture on Dante's Divine Comedy. Pianist Angelo Villani: 'It's easy to lose sight of sharing moods and emotions' 2012-10-02T16:16:25Z With a grim appropriateness, his new book is an extraordinary verse-rendering – the fruit of many years' work – of Dante's The Divine Comedy. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z He returned to The Divine Comedy shortly after 9/11, during a holiday in Greece. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z And unlike the first, “A Divine Comedy,” which was originally seen at the Ruhrtriennale festival before transferring to Berlin last season, “Ophelia’s Got Talent” is tailored to the Volksbühne’s round and technically versatile stage. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Sapia is one among many characters from the "Divine Comedy" that deserve to be known beyond – and not just because of – what Dante decided to say about them in his poem. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z You might connect them to the three parts of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”: inferno, purgatory, paradise. Dance Review: Rebecca Lazier’s ‘Coming Together/Attica’ Evokes 1971 Riot 2013-06-18T19:55:59Z The film is organized around a group that meets to discuss “The Divine Comedy.” Review: In ‘Classical Period,’ a Deep Dive — Really Deep — Into Dante 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z During this time he’s released six books: poems, essay collections, even a warm and approachable full-dress translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Review: Clive James, Writing Toward the Twilight 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z I mean as in the Human Comedy and the Divine Comedy, which in Mr. Kushner’s swirling, mixed-up universe are gloriously one and the same. Review: An ‘Angels in America’ That Soars on the Breath of Life 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z I'm not a particularly religious person, so when the concept of hell comes up my mind always goes to Dante's "Inferno," the best known section of his "Divine Comedy." Donald Trump's real conspiracy: It's much larger than even Fani Willis imagines 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Experiencing what would later be called a mid-life crisis, Dante turned to poetry to console himself, ultimately producing the greatest written work of the late Middle Ages: The Divine Comedy. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The play, which I saw with English surtitles at Krakow’s Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival last month, is a great example of the limits — and buttons — that theater pushes, through the devices of hyperrealism. Perspective | How a play about a pope’s last days reveals the stark reality of dying 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The piece is one of the more robustly satirical entries in Krakow’s annual Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival, a bustling, nine-day theater marathon. Theater at the edge of war: Laughs, brutal truths and a Zelensky spoof 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Gilliam needed to find some foundation around which to build the film’s basic architecture, and he found it in a more structured piece of literature: Dante Alighieri’s narrative poem “The Divine Comedy.” Some books are impossible to turn into movies. Why let that stop you? 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Besides his comic works, Benigni, whose film "Life is Beautiful" won three Oscars in 1999, has also done shows on Italian epic poet Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Oscar-winning comic Roberto Benigni hams it up for Pope Francis 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Written in his own native dialect, the Tuscan of the city of Florence, The Divine Comedy describes Dante’s descent into hell, guided by the spirit of the classical Roman poet Virgil. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Celestine was ridiculed by Dante in the “Divine Comedy” for cowardice in abdicating his papal role. Francis praises humility of 13th-century pope who resigned 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z The sculpture initially represented Dante, the medieval Italian poet and author of the Divine Comedy, leaning forward to observe the circles of Hell, while meditating on his work. Casting of Rodin's Thinker fetches 10.7 mln euros at Paris auction 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z A century later, in Dante's "Divine Comedy," Muhammad was portrayed being tortured as a heresiarch, with his body split open and his entrails hanging out. Could the pope visit Saudi Arabia? The unlikely religious breakthrough no one noticed 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Let us now, 702 years since the publication of “The Divine Comedy,” count the ways: the forever Omicron, climate change, nuclear saber-rattling. Commentary: Thomas Adès' fantastical 'Dante' at the L.A. Phil makes Gen X proud 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The Divine Comedy Bodleian Library, Oxford, to 14 Nov The medieval masterpiece by Dante that takes you on a quest through Purgatory to Paradise has fascinated artists since it was written in the 1300s. From Dune to Duran Duran: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z The Hollanders were renowned in Italy, where they received the Gold Florin award from the city of Florence in 2008 for their translation of “The Divine Comedy.” Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Dante's Divine Comedy to float among the stars 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The reputation of Dante Alighieri needs little burnishing: his Divine Comedy, tracing the poet’s journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, is widely regarded as one of the greatest works ever written. Dante's descendant seeks to overturn poet's 1302 corruption conviction 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The drawings illustrate Dante’s masterpiece, “The Divine Comedy,” an epic poem in three parts recounting a pilgrim’s travels through hell, purgatory and heaven. Italy’s Uffizi opens Dante anniversary with virtual exhibit 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z By way of explanation he told an audience that he had just finished illustrating a section of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and confided that he was unhappy about being allocated to purgatory. Milton Glaser obituary 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Reflecting on his three monumental undertakings — the two online projects and the translation of “The Divine Comedy” — she remarked that “most people are happy” if they achieve only one such feat. Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Right now, I am writing a book that follows my life as a journey through the different stages in the 'Divine Comedy.' My student comes home: A study in American injustice 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z I also made The Divine Comedy, a heavy rock album that directly reflected this time. Ai Weiwei: 'I became the enemy of the established power, but without a crime' 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The Italian government commissioned him in the 1950s to illustrate a deluxe edition of “The Divine Comedy.” Original Salvador Dali artwork found at Outer Banks shop 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The piece is based on a series of watercolors Dalí made to illustrate “The Divine Comedy,” a work by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the 14th century. Is That a Dalí Among the Tchotchkes? 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Dr. Hollander was best known beyond academia for his and his wife’s edition of “The Divine Comedy.” Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z He wrote four novels, translated Dante’s epic poem “The Divine Comedy” and was an authority on Formula One auto racing. Clive James, Australian-born TV host, writer, critic and all-around wit, dies at 80 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Dante’s Divine Comedy is a superlative work of poetry. Harold Bloom’s defence of western greats blinded him to other cultures | Kenan Malik 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The art was done by Dali in the 1950s as one of 100 works representing each verse of “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alleghieri. Original Salvador Dali artwork found at Outer Banks shop 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The story centered on a previously unknown manuscript of Dante’s masterwork, “The Divine Comedy,” and a more or less fictional character named Nick Tosches who is called upon to authenticate it. Nick Tosches, Fiery Music Writer and Biographer, Dies at 69 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z With his wife, the poet Jean Hollander, he produced a translation of “The Divine Comedy” that was hailed as one of the finest and most erudite English versions rendered from the original Italian. Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z I found myself thinking of Dante Alighieri, coming to himself at life’s midpoint “in a dark wood” as The Divine Comedy opens. Climate and crisis: what survives 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z On a desk in the studio’s back room, books were piled haphazardly: Paul Celan’s “The Meridian,” Dante’s Divine Comedy, Walter Benjamin’s “Illuminations,” Nelson Mandela’s “Long Walk to Freedom,” the third volume of Proust. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z "I think Plath here is attempting to feminize and modify some biblical stories, as well as Dante’s 'Divine Comedy,' by having Mary Ventura enact a journey by modern transport into the underworld," he said. An unpublished short story by Sylvia Plath will be released in 2019 - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “I think Plath here is attempting to feminise and modify some biblical stories, as well as Dante’s Divine Comedy, by having Mary Ventura enact a journey by modern transport into the underworld,” Steinberg said. Unseen Sylvia Plath short story to be published in January 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Numerous English translations of “The Divine Comedy” or parts of it had preceded the Hollanders’ works, including notable attempts by the poets W.S. Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z He proposed to make a black-and-white short featuring Baldwin and his daughter in the penthouse of a New York hotel reading the William Blake-illustrated “Divine Comedy.” ‘100 Kegs or Bust’: Kavanaugh friend, Mark Judge, has spent years writing about high school debauchery 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z “Inferno” explores a hellish world inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” while the debut of “Burlesque” delves into the uniquely exhibitionist aspects of this sensual art form. ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ LA Phil’s centennial season and 71 more arts events to check out this fall 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z He, together with Beth, is a sort of angel, like the souls in the Divine Comedy, beings who turn to us and say exactly who they are and what they stand for. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Everyone knows that if you don’t set limits, you’ll find yourself distracted by alert notifications, or looking up the history of Qatar, or wondering if the name Avenatti appears anywhere in Dante’s “The Divine Comedy.” News of an ‘Outrage’ Used to Mean Something Very, Very Different 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “He wants nothing other than what he has. After four decades of teaching the Divine Comedy, he feels close to Dante.” Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z It's the group's most challenging work; as close to Last Shadow Puppets as Monkeys could be — virtually chorus-less, very L.A., as strange as David Bowie's "Moonage Daydream" by way of "The Divine Comedy." Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner has gone to the moon and has an album to show for it 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The Inferno Room features a multimedia recreation of Zeffirelli sketches that were inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Center devoted to director Zeffirelli takes shape in Italy 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Dante’s The Divine Comedy continues to resonate – arguably with new urgency in what many feel are dark times. The world we have bequeathed to our children feels darker than the one I knew | Julianne Schultz 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Another friend, who visited him just before he died, found him reading the first volume of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” raising the possibility that he was preparing himself for some kind of afterlife. Opinion | Five myths about George Orwell 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He taught a course at Columbia whose required reading included “The Divine Comedy,” he said, and recalled thinking, “This is the greatest work of the Middle Ages?” Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Pages turning sound one more time in the near silent room and Stearns finishes the compilation with a passage from “Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri. Sweet Briar College class explores creation of sounds 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z One of her last artistic projects, a series of prints inspired by the cantos of Dante’s first book of the Divine Comedy, will be exhibited at Pembroke’s JCR art gallery next spring. Thom Yorke's ex-partner Rachel Owen dies at 48 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The Irish star is discussing his approach to writing The Divine Comedy's 11th album Foreverland. The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon: I can't resist an earworm - BBC News 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Dante’s Divine Comedy is all about overcoming spiritual exhaustion—going through the circles of hell. History of Exhaustion Reveals We Could All Use Some Sleep His most famous work is Risulat ul-Ghufran or The Epistle of Forgiveness, which is sometimes seen as a precursor to Dante's Divine Comedy. Museum of Lost Objects: The unacceptable poet - BBC News 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z And in The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for those who charged people usurious interest rates,” he said. Bernie Sanders outlines plan to end Wall Street's 'greed, fraud and arrogance' 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Her PhD subject was the illustrations of the early manuscripts of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Thom Yorke's ex-partner Rachel Owen dies at 48 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Well, there's the small matter of the first Divine Comedy album in six years. The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon: I can't resist an earworm - BBC News 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The Library of Congress is celebrating today the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth with a panel discussion, followed by a display of treasures related to the author of “The Divine Comedy.” Your Thursday Briefing: San Bernardino, Oscar Pistorius, Janet Yellen 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Virgil, who shares a name with the Roman poet immortalized in the “Divine Comedy” as Dante’s guide through hell, knows that Erika was suffering long before Evie disappeared. 'The Leftovers' recap: Looking for answers only leads to more questions 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Dante is best known for his masterpiece “The Divine Comedy.” D.C. Boys Choir ready to hit the high notes in Italy’s renowned basilicas 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z "Inferno", which follows on the blockbuster book and film franchise Brown's 2003 religious-themed mystery novel "The Da Vinci Code," centers on the "Divine Comedy," the masterpiece by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Tom Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdon in 'Inferno' 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Dante's Divine Comedy is a masterpiece of European literature. Re-interpreting Dante's Divine Comedy Africa-style 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The blank is RIMA, as terza rima was the rhyme scheme Dante used in the Divine Comedy. Here’s how you solve the puzzles 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Dante’s Divine Comedy was written in the 14th century with his uber-Catholic, Italian counterparts in mind. The 9 Circles of Hell for Millennials 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri begins with Dante’s trek through Hell, where he meets a whole range of characters. Management Lessons From Hell (Facebook I Am Talking About You) 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z There was, however, no sign of impatience among the capacity crowd that turned out to hear James read his own poetry, together with passages from his acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Seriously ill Clive James puts in a bravura performance at London literary festival – 'I'd love to go on like this' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z In 2010, for example, the studio Visceral Games adapted The Divine Comedy into a game called Dante's Inferno. Can video games be literature? 2013-12-13T16:03:04Z In Dante's Divine Comedy, once resentful individuals trudge through purgatory with their eyes wired shut, never to see the world through jaundiced lenses again. Envy: The Feeling Can Help Us Even When It Hurts (preview) 2013-10-19T06:45:00.437Z As Dante shows in the Divine Comedy, God’s love is God’s justice poured out on those who reject Him. I’m Still Not Going Back to the Catholic Church 2013-09-29T09:45:27Z He plans to release a hard-rock album titled The Divine Comedy later in the year. Ai Weiwei song rages against state 2013-05-22T15:48:30Z Inferno, the first part of Dante's poem The Divine Comedy, provides the theme and title for the new thriller by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown. 10 facts about Hell 2013-05-13T23:49:44Z Yards from Palazzo Vecchio, in the stump of a 14th-century tower, sits the Dante Society, which produced the definitive modern edition of the Divine Comedy in the 19th century as Italy united. Dan Brown's Inferno: Florence hopes for a tourism miracle 2013-05-11T18:42:26Z “The Divine Comedy” isn’t exactly a laughable matter, and indeed, its presence on a Hawaiian vacation is highly unrealistic. Don Draper does Dante 2013-04-08T16:29:00Z Visceral’s attempt to modernize Vergil’s most well-known book of The Divine Comedy was met with mixed reactions, to say the least. The Underrated Files: Video Game Soundtracks You (Probably) Missed 2013-04-04T14:00:46Z His patriotism sent him travelling once more—this year to Pesth, where he conducted his arrangement of the Rakoczy March and the Divine Comedy. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z This sketch of his life and fortunes gives us the key to the solution of many peculiarities of the Divine Comedy. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Portrait of Dante Alighieri with details of Florence and the allegory of the Divine Comedy, painted in 1465. Dan Brown's Inferno: Florence hopes for a tourism miracle 2013-05-11T18:42:26Z The presence of “The Divine Comedy” opens doors to self-awareness that “Mad Men” has yet to explore. Don Draper does Dante 2013-04-08T16:29:00Z Thus Dante's poem was a Divine Comedy, and Chaucer in the Monk's Prologue summed up the accepted opinion of the scholarship of his day. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The Divine Comedy is indeed as true an epic as the AEneid, and Dante is as real a classic as Vergil. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z It would not be hard to show that the Divine Comedy of Dante derived its matter, its form, its name, and its sentiment from the peculiar condition of the epoch. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z "You must live the city to find Dante, the Divine Comedy is literally written across the town," said Giani. Dan Brown's Inferno: Florence hopes for a tourism miracle 2013-05-11T18:42:26Z And, what is more strange, Professor Langdon writes abominable prose, such assaults upon the ear as "verse's rhythm" and "Divine Comedy's last part." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Let me give, as an example, a few lines from the marvellous and inspired pages which treat of the Divine Comedy of Dante. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The supreme tribute to woman comes at the end of the century in Dante's apotheosis of her in the Divine Comedy. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z The Divine Comedy catalogues in detail the religious, political, moral, and social events of its age. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z His "Paradise Lost" is the greatest epic in English, and the greatest that any literature has had since Dante's "Divine Comedy." The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Chaucer’s Cosmology Chaucer wrote no poetical work having a cosmographical background as completely set forth as is that in Dante’s Divine Comedy or that in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z And, in fact, are not the figures in Dante's Divine Comedy or in the paintings of Raphael just as plastic as those in Virgil or on the walls of Herculaneum? The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z It was Matthew Arnold, we believe, who first held up the poor man of Assisi as a literary type—a type as distinct and formal as the author of the Divine Comedy. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Dante died in 1321, soon after he had finished the Divine Comedy. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Linnell also commissioned him to make a series of drawings from the “Divine Comedy.” William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z Chaucer’s allusions to heaven, hell and purgatory are frequent but chiefly incidental and give no such definite idea of their location as we find in the Divine Comedy. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z But what would be the good of writing even a Hamlet or a Divine Comedy if nobody was to read it? Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z The Divine Comedy can be realistically conceived in respect to us who open the volume and prepare to read it, for the reason that it already exists and arouses our desire. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Besides her lays she versified a collection of fables, Isopet, and translated from the Latin The Purgatory of Saint Patrick,—one of those other-world journeys that preceded the Divine Comedy. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z Chaucer was also cheerfully conspicuous, and, towards the close of Blake’s life, Dante’s “Divine Comedy” came to join the silent company in the bookshelves. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z When that end came, Dante can barely have completed his great life work, he can barely have written the last lines of the 'Divine Comedy.' Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z Without it, what would become of The Romaunt of the Rose, or of The Dream of Poliphile; what, even, of the Divine Comedy? Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The Divine Comedy has been written and no longer awaits its Dante. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Thus the Divine Comedy, though written with a didactic object and under the influence of allegory, surpasses every other epic in the distinctness of its motives and the realism of their presentation. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Last year at this time, I quoted the poet Dante Alighieri, who wrote, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” about the gate to hell, in “The Divine Comedy.” Sports of The Times: Goal for One Team Is Impossible Dream for the Other 2011-03-26T17:17:58Z In its literal acceptation, then, dealing with 'the state of souls after death,' the 'Divine Comedy' has little to teach us, except indirectly. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z The Bonifaces and the Ugolinos are not the truly deep, the truly lovely figures of the Divine Comedy. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Stanisława's death exercised so much influence over Dr. Paweł's disposition that for some time afterwards, in his leisure moments, he read Dante's Divine Comedy; he gave up playing whist, and dismissed his housekeeper, aged twenty-four. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z In the Divine Comedy it took a new direction. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Works as colossal as the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost have deep and distant foundations, and the noblest passages of human verse are the unpremeditated outpourings of men who are habitually plunged in meditation. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z The allegory with which the 'Divine Comedy' opens, shadows forth the meaning and the purpose of the whole poem. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z The subject-matter of the Divine Comedy is accordingly the moral universe in all its levels,—romantic, political, religious. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z But Dante made the Florentine tongue immortal, and not only wrote the "Divine Comedy" in Florentine, but also "The New Life" and "The Banquet." A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z The studies of which the Convito forms a fragment, and the political career which ended in the embassy to Boniface, were both necessary for the Divine Comedy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Note how ponderous are some of the old epics, the Iliad, the Divine Comedy and Orlando Furioso. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Had it been so, the 'Divine Comedy' would never have been born. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z The Divine Comedy is a moral and personal fable; yet not only are many passages explicitly philosophical, but the whole is inspired and controlled by the most definite of religious systems and of moral codes. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z St. Thomas Aquinas is also interesting because his theology inspires Dante throughout the "Divine Comedy." A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z This is the very core of the antithesis presented by the Human to the Divine Comedy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Who can doubt that the Divine Comedy and Pilgrim's Progress, both in the form of dreams, were attempts by the poets to adjust themselves to reality, to purge themselves and relieve their unconscious? The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The tiny building known as the Maison Car�e is of that greatness which is not excelled by the "Divine Comedy" in literature, the "Venus of Milo" in sculpture, or the "Transfiguration" in painting. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z There is an attenuated texture and imagery in the Divine Comedy. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z This was the consequence of writing the "Divine Comedy" in Tuscan, instead of in Latin. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Yet though the Divine Comedy and the Decameron are antithetical, they are both true, and true together, inasmuch as they present the same humanity studied under contradictory conditions. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z And by having done this he may chance to read such great poetical allegories as the "Faerie Queene" and the "Divine Comedy." Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z The Divine Comedy became the manual of Mazzini and Manzoni and the other leaders of New Italy, and its influence spread over all Europe, as well as throughout this country. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z One needs but turn to the "Divine Comedy" almost anywhere to prove this. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z He employed scholars to prepare a commentary on the "Divine Comedy," and by urgent persuasion induced Petrarch to take up his abode at Milan. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z The Divine Comedy found fewer imitators than the Canzoniere; for who could bend the bow of Ulysses? Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z “If you were the assistant to Dante, and then Dante died, and then you had in your possession the whole of ‘The Divine Comedy,’ what would you do?” Allan Sandage, Astronomer, Dies at 84; Charted Cosmos?s Age and Expansion 2010-11-18T07:20:00Z To understand even an outline of the Divine Comedy one must know a few facts about the life of Dante and the experiences that matured his mind and found expression in this great poem. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Dante, “The Divine Comedy,” in a new translation. Allegra Goodman: “La Vita Nuova.” 2010-04-26T04:00:00Z Almost every library in that country contains manuscript copies of the Divine Comedy, and an account of those who have abridged or commented upon it would swell to a volume. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 After Palmieri the meter of the Divine Comedy was chiefly used for satire and burlesque. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Homer's Iliad, Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Othello, do not require to be rewritten every ten or twenty years. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses The Divine Comedy was completed only a short time before Dante's death, which occurred on September 14, 1321. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z I give Dante my highest praise when I say of his 'Divine Comedy' that it is, in all senses, genuinely a Song. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Much of his early work illustrated incidents in the "Divine Comedy." Aubrey Beardsley But the realities of the Divine Comedy are spiritual; those of the Human Comedy are material. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Have papers on the great epics, also, with readings from the "Iliad," the "Odyssey," the "Æneid," the "Nibelungenlied," the "Divine Comedy," the Arthurian cycle and "Paradise Lost." The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Our New England poet found solace in his bitter grief over the tragic death of his wife in translating the Divine Comedy in metrical form. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z What a paltry notion is that of his 'Divine Comedy's' being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII He did not attempt, or certainly never succeeded in giving, pictorial revision to a work of literature in the sense that Blake has done for the book of Job, and Botticelli for the "Divine Comedy." Aubrey Beardsley The ecclesiastical or religious element, so triumphantly expressed in the Divine Comedy, was not peculiar to the Italians. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Now, too, he did the great series, the crowning work of his life, the illustrations to The Book of Job and the illustrations to The Divine Comedy. Ideas of Good and Evil His Divine Comedy one of the world's great books, 39. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Psalm 114 is used in Dante's Divine Comedy, where he gives a picture of a boat, on which are seen a hundred spirits, singing together Psalm 114. The Bible Story The Decamerone is the chronicle of a society in extremis of which the Divine Comedy is the Last Judgment. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Still it would be difficult to imagine a more complete inversion of the Dantesque point of view, a more deliberate substitution of an Earthly Paradise for the Paradiso of the Divine Comedy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z His designs to The Divine Comedy will be laid, one imagines, with some ceremony in that immortal wastepaper-basket in which Time carries with many sighs the failures of great men. Ideas of Good and Evil Henry Wadsworth, translated the Divine Comedy by working fifteen minutes every morning, 8. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z So, too, Fernando de Villegas, who lies in the north transept and whose scholarly face still seems to shine with the inner light which prompted him to give his people the great Florentine's Divine Comedy. Cathedrals of Spain To appreciate the intellectual revolution threatened, one has only to read Dante's "Divine Comedy," for Dante journeys from planet to planet and thinks of them as arranged within crystalline spheres revolving slowly about the earth. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance It is the same blending of antique with Christian motives which we note in the Divine Comedy; but the tact of the great artist is absent, and the fusion becomes grotesque. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z To read either Paradise Lost or the Divine Comedy we must find the poet’s cosmical and his theological standpoint. Minor Poems by Milton One copy, known as the Louvre Papyrus, presents the Divine Comedy, as primarily conceived and illustrated by an archaic Dor�. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Dante's Divine Comedy, charged though it be with the political electricity of his times, was but little affected by the state of government. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy To try to find science in mythology is like looking upon Dante's Divine Comedy as a tale of real adventure. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance But once the Squire had come in to her very early one October morning when he was going cub-hunting and found her reading The Divine Comedy with a translation and an Italian dictionary and grammar. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy’s being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth! English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The author of the “Divine Comedy” was not very well known to Elizabethan readers. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Author of a prose translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy; Dante and his Times; &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 1 Prependix "The Divine Comedy" is the supreme epic of the world. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews A Latin translation of Plato's "Phædo" was spread open on the desk, together with one of the earliest printed copies of the "Divine Comedy." Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion “I tell you what–I will set myself to translating the ‘Divine Comedy’! Aurora the Magnificent Thomas Jefferson thought “The Divine Comedy” a powerful work, showing the story of how a man wuz tempted, and how sorrow lifts up the soul to new hites. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife “The Divine Comedy” is the supreme epic of the world. A Manual of the Art of Fiction For me the Divine Comedy was far from ended. Dreamers of the Ghetto To such books, or to those of Mrs. Oliphant and others, I must refer the reader for all details respecting the structure of the poem which he called the "Divine Comedy." Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The professor was engaged upon a new translation of the “Divine Comedy.” Aurora the Magnificent Dante's greatest work is the "Divine Comedy," which has made his name immortal. History of Education Dante begins writing his Divine Comedy, See "Dante Composes the Divina Commedia," vii, 1. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 The first time I looked out of that window," he said, "I seemed to myself like Dante at the end of the Divine Comedy, when once again he beheld the stars. Dreamers of the Ghetto Hence the "Divine Comedy" belongs to all time and to all place. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The work of a single author may have two separate meanings, for Dante declares that his Divine Comedy has one meaning that is personal, and another meaning that is universal. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Was the "Divine Comedy" too clear-cut and trenchant for Walter Pater? Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions To Wolfram, and to many a poet of his time, the human tragedy of this world presented the same unreal, transitory, and transparent aspect which we find again in Dante's “Divine Comedy.” Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities The best commentary on this Book, we repeat, is the Divine Comedy of Dante, the grand poem of futurity, which carries out to fullness the order, of which we here catch a little glimpse. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Many are unable to apprehend the greatness of the "Divine Comedy." Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History In spite of his ability to write Latin, he chose the mother tongue for his great poem, The Divine Comedy. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe It would be indeed an anti-climax if the queer Comedy we have so daintily been patronizing turned out to be a Divine Comedy�and ourselves the point of the jest! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions When he was at Pisa, an Irishman there was engaged in translating the "Divine Comedy." My Recollections of Lord Byron With bitterness in his heart he wandered from city to city, and then he set out in earnest to write the great poem which is called the Divine Comedy. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. This sonnet has a twofold interest, as being the earliest of Dante's poetic composition preserved to us, and as describing a vision which connects it in motive with the vision of the 'Divine Comedy.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Dante led the way in Italy, and gave to the world the "Divine Comedy"—a masterpiece of human genius, which raised him to the rank of Homer and Virgil. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Every great and beautiful thing was once an unuttered thought; and we know the time and almost the place where Dante conceived the idea of "The Divine Comedy." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers All his life he was a deep student of Dante, the Divine Comedy being his constant companion, so that he knew it almost completely by heart. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles Another's idea of the Divine Comedy is "a play which could be acted by the priests on the steps of a church for the benefit of the poorer class." A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries It was in the 'Divine Comedy' that his genius found its full expression, and it is to this supreme poem that all his other work serves as substructure. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Hunt, Leigh, his characterization of the "Divine Comedy," 70. The Booklover and His Books Dante’s Divine Comedy is supremely important as a philosophy; but it is important merely as a panorama. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Dante's Divine Comedy sums up in a single magnificent epic the spirit and meaning of the mediæval point of view. Human Traits and their Social Significance All this part of the poem is nothing but an eloquent declaration of man's duties, and is one of the finest pages of this "Divine Comedy" of the poor. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance The style of the 'Divine Comedy' is as different from that of the Æneid as it is from that of 'Paradise Lost.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Of all the masterpieces of human genius the "Divine Comedy" is perhaps the one that asks the most self-surrender of the modern reader and—shall I add?—that repays it most richly. The Booklover and His Books Dante sees himself "growing lean over his Divine Comedy." Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power The terza rima is the metre of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Principles of English Versification The poetry of the Divine Comedy belongs to nature; its superstition, intolerance, and fanaticism, to the thirteenth century. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 Above all other poetry the 'Divine Comedy' is the expression of high character, and of a manly nature of surpassing breadth and tenderness of sympathy, of intensity of moral earnestness, and elevation of purpose. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Longfellow's marvelous sonnet sequence, written while he was translating Dante, portrays at once the spirit in which we should approach the reading of the "Divine Comedy" and the wonders that we shall find there. The Booklover and His Books But the words of the Divine Comedy will never be forgotten, and the glory of an epic rests always with Italian literature. Heroes of Modern Europe Extracts give no very satisfactory idea of "Paradise Lost" or "The Divine Comedy," and the same is true of extracts from a history or a novel. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy’s being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged-upon on earth! Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History The 'Divine Comedy' is indeed not less incomparable in its beauty than in its vast compass, the variety of its interest, and in the harmony of its form with its spirit. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Chaucer loves to refer to Dante, and often translates passages from the Divine Comedy. Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The later cantos of the great poem, the Divine Comedy, were sent to this ruler as they were written. Heroes of Modern Europe Above all, the "Divine Comedy" has many references to it, while the "Convito" would seem to show that it was probably the book that most influenced Dante. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages As a matter of fact, many poets had already essayed, but timidly and without perseverance, to "come to the test in the metrification" of the Divine Comedy. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 It is this conception which forms the bond of union between the 'New Life,' the 'Banquet,' and the 'Divine Comedy,' and not merely as literary compositions but as autobiographical records. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 It is the Divine Comedy compressed within the limits of a piano-piece. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques The fame of the Divine Comedy was known to all, and men were amazed by the splendid audacity of the Inferno. Heroes of Modern Europe Is the end of Dante's Divine Comedy to please? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Homer, Virgil, Dante, Tennyson, and Longfellow have left for us such historical paintings as the Iliad, Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Divine Comedy, Idyls of a King, Miles Standish, etc. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart A blind faith and scholastic reason were the foundations of the great vision of the 'Divine Comedy.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Let this stand as a tentative reply: Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound," Dante's "Divine Comedy," Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Milton's "Paradise Lost," and Job, author unknown. A Hero and Some Other Folks Dante's Divine Comedy is a declaration of war against the Papacy, 822-m. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It includes alike the Divine Comedy and the human comedy. Platform Monologues Lear and the Divine Comedy exhaust the thinking of the profoundest student, yet subdue to hushed and breathless attention the illiterate minds that know not what study means. Early Reviews of English Poets The desire for good Latin became injurious to Italian, and Petrarca censured Dante for his error in composing the Divine Comedy in the vulgar tongue. Lectures on Modern history Dante is nearest neighbor to Aeschylus, though fifteen hundred years removed, and the "Divine Comedy" has all elements of sublimity. A Hero and Some Other Folks Commentaries and studies have been multiplied upon the Divine Comedy, the work of DANTE, and yet no one, so far as we know, has pointed out its especial character. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The profoundly symbolical words, "The new life is beginning," are written at the commencement of his Vita Nuova, and with his Divine Comedy the art of Europe had attained perfection. The Evolution of Love That this lady was Beatrice Portinari, as Browning supposes, Dante's devotion to her, in both "The New Life" and "The Divine Comedy," should leave no doubt. Men and Women Only once in the Divine Comedy does he mention his own name and at once he apologizes for the intrusion. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Shakespeare was not attempting to justify the ways of God to men, or to show the universe as a Divine Comedy. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth But if any man thinks that simply to be an exile is a small punishment, or a light cross, let him read the psalms and prophecies of Babylon, the Divine Comedy, and Rutherford’s Letters. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents At the conclusion of his Divine Comedy Dante proved himself a truly inspired mystic, for he gave to us the profoundest vision of the divinity which has ever been vouchsafed to man. The Evolution of Love In like manner, though in lesser degree, the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," the "Divine Comedy," the plays of Shakespeare, and "Faust" have set new movements in motion and have enriched and enlarged the lives of races. Books and Culture This ecclesiastic while attending the council of Florence in 1414 was asked by the Bishops of Bath and Salisbury, England, to make a Latin translation of the Divine Comedy. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 For Dante that which is recorded in the Divine Comedy was the justice and love of God. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth As it is with painters so it is with poets, and wolf cubs tear the pages of the last Divine Comedy in the world. Mike Fletcher A Novel A direct way must lead from Jerusalem, the centre of the earth—it still takes this position in Dante's Divine Comedy—to Paradise. The Evolution of Love The study which has found its material and its reward in Dante's "Divine Comedy" or in Goethe's "Faust" is the best possible evidence of the inexhaustible interest in the masterpieces of these two great poets. Books and Culture At the very beginning of the Divine Comedy, we see his ascent to the mountain of the Lord barred by Lust, Pride and Avarice represented by a leopard, a lion, and a wolf. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 If one may be so near Titian's autograph and the illuminated Divine Comedy, why not this treasure too? A Wanderer in Venice Dante, exiled from his beloved Florence, condemned to death, lived in caves, half starved; then Dante wrote out his heart in "The Divine Comedy." The Art of Public Speaking In the Divine Comedy St. Bernard prays: So mighty art thou, Lady, and so great, That he who grace desireth and comes not To thee for aidence, fain would have desire Fly without wings. The Evolution of Love Whoever reads the "Divine Comedy" and "Faust" for the first time discovers new realms of truth for himself, and gains not only the joy of discovery, but an immense addition of territory as well. Books and Culture The Divine Comedy is attractive for other reasons. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Longfellow's version of the "Divine Comedy" with the series of sonnets by the translator came out in 1867-70. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century His books were the "Meditations" of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and Dante's "Divine Comedy," with the "Aeneis," Ariosto, and some old Spanish romances next in order. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 The identity of the last scene of Faust, Goethe's masterpiece, and the conclusion of Dante's Divine Comedy, is so obvious that I do not think any one could deny it. The Evolution of Love He is known as the public lecturer upon the Divine Comedy, and as the author of some interesting but meager lives of eminent Florentines, his predecessors or contemporaries. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The whole Divine Comedy indeed is the poet's loving testimonial of gratitude to the Madonna. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 The most ambitious of these is "The Dream of Gerontius," a sort of mystery play which Sir Henry Taylor used to compare with the "Divine Comedy." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century And that which Dante, the great Catholic, called the Divine Comedy, is the most tragical tragedy that has ever been written. Tragic Sense Of Life The whole sixteenth chapter of the Booklet of Eternal Wisdom is an ardent hymn to the Madonna, almost comparable to St. Bernard's prayer to Mary in Dante's Divine Comedy. The Evolution of Love How S. Francis found God in the sun and the air, the water and the stars, we know by his celebrated hymn; and of Dante's acute observation, every canto of the 'Divine Comedy' is witness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series That is especially true of the Divine Comedy, as he writes to Can Grande in explanation of the purpose of the poem. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 "The plan" of the "Divine Comedy," "appeared to him unhappy; the personal malignity and strange mode of revenge presumptuous and uninteresting." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Still, it would be difficult to accept absolutely a canon of art which would place the Divine Comedy on the shelf and deprive us of the Bothwell of Mr. Swinburne. Reviews He died in the year of grace 1270, and Dante, who was almost a contemporary, immortalised his name in the Divine Comedy. The Evolution of Love The Divine Comedy of Dante is herein the immortal type of the poet's evolution. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The Divine Comedy is his matchless monument to her who is the protagonist and muse of his poem and the love of his heart. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Here and there a reference to the "Divine Comedy" occurs in some seventeenth-century English prose writer like Sir Thomas Browne or Jeremy Taylor. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century In his 'Divine Comedy' he places Boëtius in the Heaven of the Sun, together with the Fathers of the Church and the schoolmen. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The Divine Comedy represents the journey of humanity through the kingdoms of the world in a manner unique and representative, applicable alike to all men, in the sense of the Catholic Middle Ages. The Evolution of Love Best known as the author of The Divine Comedy. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems William Blake's transpositions of the Divine Comedy seem to sound the depths; Botticelli, notwithstanding the grace of his "baby centaurs" and the wreathed car of Beatrice, is the profounder man of the two. Promenades of an Impressionist What a paltry notion is that of his 'Divine Comedy's' being a poor splenetic, impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth! A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Till I heard you, the Divine Comedy was to me a vast enigma to which none had found the clue—the commentators least of all. Poor Relations And with the fundamental feeling of Dante's Divine Comedy Faust concludes: The ever-womanly Draws us above. The Evolution of Love In the Divine Comedy, the Poet passes to the world to come, and rises to the final union of the love for Beatrice, the beatifier, with the glory of the Love of God. The Banquet (Il Convito) Dante, in the 'Divine Comedy,' speaks by name of Arthur, Guinevere, Tristan, and Launcelot. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Shelley expressed to Medwin his dissatisfaction with all English renderings from Dante—even with Cary—and announced his intention, or desire, to translate the whole of the "Divine Comedy" in terza rima. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Among the great mental facts, palpable to the eyes of all men interested in literature, are such creations as the Iliad, the Divine Comedy, the great Shakspearian dramas, the Paradise Lost, and Faust. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style It is curious that even as the last cantos of the Divine Comedy were discovered by means of a dream, so a dream went before the discovery of the bones of Dante. Ravenna, a Study One argument is that the Divine Comedy is nowhere mentioned or alluded to in the Convito. The Banquet (Il Convito) Lewes thought this happy, and he recognised the kind of likeness that was meant to the great singer of the Divine Comedy. What I Remember, Volume 2 He ends by protesting that Dante is a semi-barbarian and his "Divine Comedy" too often an infernal tragedy. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century One of the supreme creations of the human mind is the Divine Comedy of Dante, and undoubtedly one of its chief sources is the literature of ancient Ireland. The Glories of Ireland And I show more completely, I think, than any other commentator, the analogy between it and the 'Divine Comedy,' and how much Dante owed to it.... A Mere Accident Therefore, we may recall Dante, whose Divine Comedy was with him from his thirty-fifth year till the year of his death, the bitter-sweet companion of twenty years of exile. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays The episodes from the Divine Comedy are painted in a rude Gothic spirit. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Italians used to complain that the foreign reader's knowledge of the "Divine Comedy" was limited to the "Inferno," and generally to the Ugolino and Francesca passages. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Dante was virtually the creator of the Italian language, which was in its infancy when he wrote his 'Divine Comedy' some six hundred years ago, while Jasmin was merely reviving a gradually-expiring dialect. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Quail's little companion cried, enchanted at a de luxe edition of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution They are free to write a "Divine Comedy" in which heaven shall be under the floor of hell. Heretics We also know that he filled a book with drawings illustrative of the "Divine Comedy." The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti The difficulty, not to say obscurity, of the "Divine Comedy"; its allusive, elliptical style; its scholasticism and allegorical method; its multitudinous references to local politics and the history of thirteenth-century Italy, defied approach. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He says that "the whole Divine Comedy of which these ten cantos are a specimen will appear in due time." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 The Divine Comedy is universally regarded as one of the greatest products of poetical genius. Outline of Universal History The Divine Comedy is composed of three parts: hell, purgatory, and heaven. Initiation into Literature Of Michelangelo's special devotion to Dante and the "Divine Comedy" we have plenty of proof. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Then came Macaulay's essay "Milton," in the Edinburgh for 1825, with the celebrated parallel between the "Divine Comedy" and the "Paradise Lost," and the contrast between Dante's "picturesque" and Milton's "imaginative" method. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century When the Florentines founded a professorship for the reading and exposition of the Divine Comedy, Boccaccio was made the first incumbent. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The Divine Comedy is sometimes called the epic of mediaevalism, and again, the epic of man. National Epics Another Italian humanist went so far as to call Dante "a poet for bakers and cobblers," and the Divine Comedy was indeed translated into Latin a few years after the author's death. Early European History Much more valuable and readable are his translations from various European languages, and of these his metrical version of The Divine Comedy of Dante is most notable. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived In what way was the fact that Dante wrote his Divine Comedy in Italian instead of Latin an evidence of large independence? The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Both of these poets are immortalized in the Divine Comedy of Dante. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities A description of the rise of the Nile and of the Divine Comedy of Dante, as such a measurer of the life of the Middle Ages, made up the speech. Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way Compare Luther's work in fixing the form of the German language with Dante's service to Italian through the Divine Comedy. Early European History His immortal poem, The Divine Comedy, is divided into three parts —"Hell," "Purgatory," and "Paradise." Poets of the South Books like Dante's "Divine Comedy," or Plato's dialogues, will not give themselves to a lounging reader. The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII Before the end of the sixteenth century, the "Divine Comedy" had gone through sixty editions. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The other great epic poems worthy to be compared with Milton’s, the Iliad, Odyssey, Æneid, and Divine Comedy, all agree in representing man as an object of the deepest solicitude to the gods or God. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Dante's most famous work, the Divine Comedy, describes an imaginary visit to the other world. Early European History Dante must often have been in the church before it was restored as we now see it, and a quotation from the "Divine Comedy" is on its façade. A Wanderer in Florence The "Vita Nuova" shows the first stages of that genius, the first proofs of that wide sympathy, which at length resulted in the "Divine Comedy." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 The Divine Comedy is one of the greatest monuments of human genius. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The horrendous incidents depicted in Dante's "Divine Comedy" never occurred within the lifetime experience of the author as such. How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study He wrote the Divine Comedy, not in Latin, but in the vernacular Italian as spoken in Florence. Early European History How he viewed her the "Divine Comedy" tells us, and that he longed to return we also know. A Wanderer in Florence Dante brought the universe into his Divine Comedy. La Fiammetta There is much that is satirical in the "Divine Comedy" of Dante. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The "Tales of a Wayside Inn" appeared in 1863, and seven years later he published his translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy." Elson Grammar School Literature v4 The Divine Comedy gives in artistic verse an epitome of all that medieval men knew and hoped and felt: it is a mirror of the Middle Ages. Early European History After Rabelais he illustrated Balzac, also the "Wandering Jew," "Don Quixote," and Dante's "Divine Comedy." Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People The scholar, for example, will put tenfold more meaning into his reading of the Divine Comedy than the untrained person. The Principles of Aesthetics The author of The Divine Comedy commemorated in stucco, even in a slumbering corner of Ravenna, is not "sympathetic." Italian Hours A Villon may give the world a few songs of notable sweetness or power; he cannot give the world a Divine Comedy or the plays of Corneille. Essays on Work and Culture Da Ponte lives in the respect and admiration of Dante scholars as the first of American teachers and commentators on "The Divine Comedy." Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time "I have never opened the 'Divine Comedy'—still less the 'Vita Nova'; but I consider the author a donkey, and am sure that was the opinion of his Donna Beatrice." The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca The greatest example of this is perhaps the Divine Comedy, where each of the hundred cantos and each line of each canto is perfect in workmanship and packed with significance. The Principles of Aesthetics He adored Virgil, yet he wrote the Divine Comedy, with the episode of Ugolino, which is as unlike the Aeneid as can possibly be. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style It is said that the Cid is the foremost poem produced in Europe from the thousand years that marked the decline of Greek and Roman civilization, to the appearance of the Divine Comedy. The Interdependence of Literature Its theology, like the theology of "Paradise Lost or the Divine Comedy," has sunk to the bottom of the black brook. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Call it Divine Comedy, rather!' said the soldier exultingly. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day He himself was accustomed to refer to it cynically as a monstrosity, and yet he put himself into it as intensely as Dante put himself into "The Divine Comedy." Faust — Part 1 Here, with Ovid's verses, is the Commentary on Dante, and his Divine Comedy. Oxford Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy, beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems of Homer. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 The Divine Comedy is beyond dispute the greatest book of personal and experimental religion the world has ever seen. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Every reader of the Divine Comedy must be struck by the veneration which Dante expresses for writers far inferior to himself. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 If every simile and every turn of Dante had been copied ten thousand times, the Divine Comedy would have retained all its freshness. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 What do we admire in the 'Divine Comedy' unless it be the great soul of Dante? The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard What power of will must the steady, unbroken elaboration of the _Divine Comedy _have required! The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy But in the Holy War we have Bunyan himself as fully and as exclusively as we have Dante in the Divine Comedy. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) No poem in any tongue is more informed with rhythmic life than the Divine Comedy. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell The Divine Comedy was to that age what St. Paul's Cathedral was to Omai. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 The miniatures in a very old manuscript of the "Divine Comedy," the "Codex Venetianus," represent the poet as a little fat man clad in a short tunic, the skirts of which fall above his knees. Penguin Island In the 'Divine Comedy' he treats the ancient and the Christian worlds, not indeed as of equal authority, but as parallel to one another. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy She was the inspiration of his early poem; and afterward, in the Divine Comedy, she became the embodiment of his conception of divine wisdom. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages So many versions of the Divine Comedy exist in English that a new one might well seem needless. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell The great source, as it appears to me, of the power of the Divine Comedy is the strong belief with which the story seems to be told. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 With all its weird unearthliness, there is hardly another book in the whole range of human literature which is marked with such unswerving veracity as the "Divine Comedy." The Unseen World and Other Essays Even apart from the 'Divine Comedy,' Dante would have marked by these youthful poems the boundary between medievalism and modern times. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Such, in the briefest form, is the argument of the Divine Comedy; this statement carries the actual story and the allegory side by side. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages But in the Divine Comedy the personages are all from real life, they are men and women with their natural passions and emotions, and they are undergoing an actual experience. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell No person can have attended to the Divine Comedy without observing how little impression the forms of the external world appear to have made on the mind of Dante. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 The rhyme-system of the "Divine Comedy" refuses equally to be tampered with or ignored. The Unseen World and Other Essays More than a century elapsed before the spiritual element in painting and sculpture attained a power of expression in any way analogous to that of the 'Divine Comedy.' The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy The second part of the Divine Comedy is the vision of Purgatory. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages I was but a beginner in the study of the Divine Comedy when I first had his incomparable aid in the understanding of it. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell Indeed the mythology of the Divine Comedy is of the elder and more colossal mould. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 "A man, too, who could boast of Dante for a genealogist, and could reckon back to the 'Divine Comedy.'" The Count of Monte Cristo The Italian students of nature trace with pride in the 'Divine Comedy' the hints and proofs of Dante's scientific in- terest in nature. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy The third part of the Divine Comedy is the vision of Paradise. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages I must assume that it will be familiar to the readers of my version, at least to those among them who desire truly to understand the Divine Comedy. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell I cannot refrain, however, from saying a few words upon the translations of the Divine Comedy. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy's being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth! On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History In one or two of those editions is to be found the title of "The Vision," which I have adopted, as more conformable to the genius of our language than that of "The Divine Comedy." Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete Dante's "Divine Comedy" is an allegory of a very elevated kind. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages The Notes and Illustrations that accompany Mr. Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy form an admirable body of comment on the poem. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell Those who are ignorant of the Italian language should read it to become acquainted with the Divine Comedy. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 In the Divine Comedy it is displayed in its highest perfection. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 The aim of Dante in the Divine Comedy was to set forth these truths in such wise as to affect the imaginations and touch the hearts of men, so that they should turn to righteousness. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell |
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