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Sep 14– From The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321) translated by Henry F. Cary
Summary: Heaven is beautiful, and we should all be Christian.
Commentary: The DC bits are the hardest to follow with jumping around, since it's really three books worth of jumping in one. This is pretty near the end, about two-thirds of the way through "Paradiso" which is the final book. No illustrations tonight, which is a shame, I always enjoy them in these.
Dante does possibly literature's first instance of "your mortal tongue/ear/mind cannot comprehend it" with Beatrice showing a flame/song too beautiful for Dante to transcribe.
With so divine a song, that fancy’s ear
Records it not; and the pen passeth on
And leaves a blank: for that our mortal speech,
Nor e’en the inward shaping of the brain,
Hath colours fine enough to trace such folds.
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