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My trying to retell a story to someone:
-Dante, Inferno
🌋 I had to read Dante’s Inferno for the ~fifth time the other day, but I never get tired of this book. I have a few copies of the Comedy/the Inferno, so I took this opportunity to highlight and annotate one of my prettiest copies. The cover is beautiful and haunting. Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the Inferno. Do you have a favorite canto from the Comedy?
What’s your favourite canto from Dante’s inferno?
Such a great question. My favorite is probably the last canto (canto 34). Particularly, it is the last line that made me fall in love with this canto. The line reading:
Or, translated:
Even still, there are so many amazing cantos in Inferno, so it’s hard to choose. How about yourself? I want to hear everyone’s favorites :)
Yes I do have 4 different versions of Dante’s Inferno. So what?
“Then we came forth, to see again the stars.”
“pure and prepared to rise up to the stars.”
“the Love that moves the sun and all the other stars.”
✦ The last lines of the Divine Comedy, (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso). Dante Alighieri.
