Dante Alighieri

Of the most haunting works of Italian literature is Dante Alighieri's "La Divina Comedia" and particularly the first part of the said script: Inferno.

It was by watching an episode of Cold Case that I came across Dante and Inferno. It is about the journey of Dante deep into the structure of Hell...

I managed to get the script, but can't understand a thing - it's in its original language... Razz

Does anyone know where I can get a reliable English or French version of La Divina Comedia?

Nataku wrote:: It was by watching an episode of Cold Case that I came across Dante and Inferno.

Does anyone know where I can get a reliable English or French version of La Divina Comedia?

Nay, it was by watching Messiah that we came across this. Razz

Oh... And you needn't worry... You ought to be able to find some versions in some universities in developed countries...

Messiah? Sans blague! Tous les acteurs ressemblaient à ceux de Cold Case... Suspect

J'arrive pas à croire que je suis stupide au point de confondre Messiah et Cold Case... Shame be on me! Rolling Eyes

Nan, les acteurs ressemblaient plutôt à ceux de NCIS! Je regarde la télé moins souvent que toi en plus! Espèce de truc va~ Razz

uh....i've got the translation of dante's inferno (french translation... or is it english? can't remember cause it's been some time since i read it...) and i am à la recherche des deux autres....got to check on the net. the inferno i've got has got side notes for easier comprehension. want to read it, nataku?

Of course! Me want to read it... aarrrgghhhhh! All I've got is the original text (full, if you're interested Shizuka), so there is not much I can do to understand it well, unless I take old Italian courses Neutral

Shizuka ~ the saviour!!! drunken

yes, well, i'll try to mail that to you...whenever, just tell me. and i'm still looking for the two others...wonder if i'll ever find it (sighs deeply and then yells: 'baka old shim above (god...it's sexless, na?) help me there!!!! get me the two other texts...and min, you old thing, i want the translated versions!!!!!!).

Our country is indeed a developed one (Jugnauth and his pal Berenger yelled this to the whole world)! You can walk into all, and I mean ALL, the bookshops or library in this country and no one will know who the hell Dante is! Et nous sommes sensés être patriotiques?! Evil or Very Mad

oh, just imagine, last time i went to the library and i asked for 'l'île du docteur moreau' and the librarian actually did not know what it was!!! she just looked at me with that dumb blank look and said 'ché pas...' how horrible!!!!!!!!! yeah, well, with some effort i'll get that on the net.

I haven't read that book (L'ile du Dr.Moreau) but I saw the movie (an old one) long ago, I think before I was 10. That was one of the best movies I've watched and I never forgot the story.

Yesterday I was in the school library and ventured into a dusty corner behind the "Literature section" - even librarians don't go there I think - and guess what I saw!
Under thick layers of dust, there were tons of great books! Virgil, Dante, Tolstoy, Homer, Machiavelli and so many others, all there, unknown to the QEC students! Shocked

What's more - they have never been borrowed in 5 years! Shame! Evil or Very Mad

I couldn't bear such a wastage and took Tolstoy's first volume of War and Peace.

oh, good reading then...i want to read the illiad and the odyssey full version...it's apparently entirely written in iambic pentameter which is really a hard thing to do. takes a genius or some well inspired time-waster to do that....