Paradise
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9626343184 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Describing the Indescribable" according to James G. Bruen Jr.. In Paradise, Dante's taken on an impossible task: describing the indescribable. Even St. Paul found it impossible to recount his mystical experience of heaven. The Inferno and Purgatory read like journeys onto which theological and philosophical points are appended. Paradise reads more like a theological treatise onto which a journey is appended. Dante's vision of Paradise is deeply poetic, thoughtful, theological, and thought-provoking. Dante's description of the fall of the angels (and Esolen's notes thereon) are particularly insightful.Dante (the poet not the character i. Shopper in Richmond said Fabulous introduction and notes. The introduction to this book is comprehensive and thoughtful. Anthony Esolen writes beautifully and does a great job of explaining the framework of Dante's Paradise. The notes are extremely helpful, too, though I think I would have preferred footnotes to end notes, as I had to keep flipping to the back. It was a minor distraction, however, and I never would have begun to appreciate Dante's poetry without Esolen's notes.If anybody is interested in more, the author is preparing a series of instructional CD's for the entire Divine Comedy. As of this writing , only the CD's on. S. Kelley said Highly Recommended!. A friend and I read the whole of Dr. Esolen's beautiful translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (I am copying this review to the other two canticles) over a few months, along with the DVD lecture series on it that Dr. Esolen has made, which is available through different vendors. I HIGHLY recommend the project to anyone, particularly Catholics, because while the footnotes and endnotes are outstanding, the lecture series really brings it home to our lives and spirituality. We did this exercise because Bishop Barron had commented how fruitful the Divine Comedy was for his spirit
"A spectacular achievement," said poet and critic Archibald MacLeish of John Ciardi's version of Dante's masterpiece. Eliot. "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach." The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God. From the Inside Flap The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. "A text with the clarity and sobriety of a first-rate prose translation which at the same time suggests
. Dante Alighieri (c.1265 1321) is the author of "The" "Divine Comedy", a masterpiece of world literature
With music of the period.. "I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget" Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars through the heavenly spheres of Paradise. The horrors of Inferno and the trials of Purgatory are left far behind. In this third and final part of The Divine Comedy, he encounters the just rulers and holy saints of the Church. Originally released on 3 CDs in abridged form. Now available on 4 CDs unabridged. Ultimately, in Paradise, Dante is granted a vision of God's Heavenly court - the angels, the Blessed Virgin and God Himself