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Paradiso (1992)

by Dante Alighieri

Other authors: Dante Alighieri, Cesare Segre

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Series: The Divine Comedy (3)

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In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in understanding, until he finally experiences divine love in the radiant presence of the deity. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, Dante exercised all his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his creation of one of the greatest of all Christian allegories.… (more)
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Spectacular notes. Translation is good. ( )
  judeprufrock | Jul 4, 2023 |
I really enjoyed Inferno, struggled to get through Purgatorio, and couldn't force myself to finish Paradiso. ( )
  jessoftheBooks | Aug 23, 2022 |
A poet takes a tour of the heavens.

1/4 (Bad).

I gave up a little under halfway through. The first two books were boring, but they were at least about someone going somewhere and seeing things that were, in some sense, happening. This is just a list of dead people, many of whom give speeches.

(Apr. 2022) ( )
  comfypants | Apr 9, 2022 |
I found I enjoyed each of these sets of 36 cantos less and less. This last group just felt...mind-numbing. I'm trying to determine if they were the most overtly religious of the three sets.

I liked the "spheres of heaven" aspect, but really the rest of it just left me cold. ( )
  TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |
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  Northkzy | Jul 26, 2021 |
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Dante AlighieriAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Alighieri, Dantesecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Segre, Cesaresecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Barceló, MiquelIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bergin, Thomas GoddardTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Binyon, LaurenceTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Boeken, H.J.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bosco, UmbertoEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Botticelli, SandroIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bremer, FredericaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Brouwer, RobTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cary, Henry FrancisTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ciardi, JohnTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dore, GustaveIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Esolen, AnthonyTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Freccero, JohnIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Giacalone, GiuseppeEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hollander, JeanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hollander, RobertTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Inglese, GiorgioEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kirkpatrick, RobinTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Longfellow, Henry WadsworthTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mandelbaum, AllenTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Moser, BarryIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Musa, MarkTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Norton, Charles EliotTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Oelsner, H.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pipping, AlineTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Reggio, GiovanniEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Reynolds, BarbaraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sagarra, Josep Maria deTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sapegno, NatalinoEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sayers, Dorothy L.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The glory of the One who moves all things permeaetes the universe and glows in one part more and in another less.
(La gloria di clui che tutto move per l'universo penetra, e risplende in una parte piu e meno altrove.)
[Preface - Oxford edition] For the principles followed in the translation of the Paradiso, we refer the reader to the preface to our Inferno volume, and for the Italian text to the preface to our Purgatorio volume.
[Introduction - Oxford edition] The first two cantiche of the Comedy are, for the most part, intuitively direct in their modes of representation, however these modes may be qualified; but this last cantica is far from being direct.
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Just book three Paradise / Paradiso in this work. No combined version or other volumes!
This is part 1 of Paradise and should not be combined with the Complete Paradise, v. 3 of the Divine Comedy.
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In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in understanding, until he finally experiences divine love in the radiant presence of the deity. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, Dante exercised all his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his creation of one of the greatest of all Christian allegories.

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Questa nuova opera dantesca conserva - e consolida - la fortunata idea-forza delle precedenti dello stesso autore: trasparenza e didatticità dei commenti e delle note esplicative, aggiornamento e puntualità degli interventi critici.
Ciascuno dei tre volumi si apre con una introduzione mirata alla struttura fisica e all'ordinamento morale di ciascuna delle tre cantiche. In particolare il volume dedicato all'Inferno reca anche un'introduzione globale su tutto l'oltremondo dantesco.
In ciascuno dei tre volumi compaiono tutti i canti.
Ogni canto, completo nei versi e negli apparati, è preceduto da un'introduzione di sintesi narrativa, di valutazione critica, di inquadramento storico. Ed è concluso da una o due letture critiche su temi focali di Dante e della cultura che fu sua, desunte dalle opere dei maggiori dantisti e medievisti italiani e stranieri; da una ricca bibliografia di approfondimento multidisciplinare; da una batteria di proposte di ricerca.
Spesso, al termine del canto, ricorre la rubrica dei "passi controversi" dove vengono considerati i luoghi cruciali del poema di più complessa interpretazione filologica.
Un dossier di tavole illustrate fuori testo testimonia la fortuna iconografica della Commedia nei secoli, dai primitivi maestri miniatori ai grandi pittori del '900.
Rispetto alle precedenti opere dantesche dello stesso autore è stato accresciuto il numero complessivo delle pagine, è stata notevolmente migliorata la leggibilità, sono state aggiunte nuove letture, sono state rivisitate e ampliate molte proposte di ricerca.
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