Why is it deemed necessary to read Dante?
Why is it deemed necessary to read Dante?
Bentley Sullivan
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Joshua Sanchez
Dante you know? He'sa Italiano! Mama mia!
Gabriel Powell
eh, don't
Robert Phillips
You have to be literate.
Alexander Jenkins
>tfw Mario is my only basis for Italian accent
kek
Joseph Jackson
It's three part Romans, Florence politics and Catholicism.
Dante didn't understand Greek so he got all he needed from Latin poets. Bible is obvious, while you needn't bother with Florence politics past the Ghibellini - Guelphs feud that involved Dante. There's plenty of references there that are too obscure to anyone to guess.
Thomas Campbell
Read Petrarch and Boccaccio instead
Wyatt Edwards
Bible, Vergil, Aristotle.
Adrian Walker
If you can understand Italian, read Dante for the prose.
Don't read Dante for the content. Nigga barely understood the Bible and wrote a self-insert fanfic, forcing his misunderstanding into the popular consciousness.
Elijah Lee
You guys should try reading the OP.
Brandon Walker
You really don't need to be well versed in anything else, just have a moderate degree of literacy. And be willing to take notes and Google words you don't know. The hardest part is starting, and slogging through the prose. But it becomes an addictive read very quickly.
It's fun and full of character.
I don't think your assessment of the content is reflective of a comprehensive reading.
Juan Stewart
Kek I don't think you read it very closely
Carter Perez
He didn't read it at all
Jacob Stewart
You'd think there'd be a higher level of reading comprehension for this board
Cooper Young
He btfos atheists
Seriously how can you read his play and become a believer?
Brandon Walker
Jacob Harris
>play
Julian Jackson
because he's the father of italian literature and one of the most important authors in europe
besides that, his poetry is absolutely stunning
Brandon Young
It's not. Who cares about medieval poetry anyway? Just read the greeks, faggot.
Lucas Thomas
Marries the biblical and Greek literary canons
John Mitchell
"Dante is the only poet." - Beckett
"The Comedy is the best book we have." - Borges
Considered, by Joyce, second only to Shakespeare.
Brody Thompson
*Considered, only by Joyce, second ony to Shakespeare.
Fixed
Charles Miller
>comedy
>not a play
Gavin Reyes
dont forget
"dante and shakespeare divided the modern world between them; there is no third" -eliot
Luke Russell
He's right
Grayson Gonzalez
I can't tell if this is irony anymore.
Lincoln Morales
Because he has the best conceptualization of hell, heaven and purgatory. All with exquisite prose.
Elijah Adams
indeed it is very beautiful prose
Levi Howard
Why do you guys call it prose?
John Williams
It is very beautiful prose
Nathan Garcia
>read Dante for the prose
>Dante
>prose
Spotted the pseud
Easton Gonzalez
Prose is the voice of the novel; it's literally how the novel sounds as it is being read.
Sebastian White
In fact I asked because Dante didn't write a novel.
Daniel Jones
>forcing his misunderstanding into the popular consciousness
Barely, and he didn't do anything near the damage Milton did for Biblical misconceptions
Jonathan Walker
Prose is the voice of the comedy; it's literally how the comedy sounds as it is being read.
Jaxson Watson
Okay but it's poetry, so I wouldn't talk about prose
Samuel Howard
Y'see, if Shakespeare created consciousness Dante created the rest.
Anthony Scott
Influence
Elijah Sullivan
Because his work is beautiful
Alexander Flores
>Dante
>prose
Dominic Fisher
No, I feel that way too
Thomas Hall
Milton is badass though.
You won't get biblical misconceptions if you just read the Bible.
Aiden Murphy
Shakespeare is absolutely GOAT, but he dispersed all his greatness in 38 works, while Dante condensed it in one poem. That's why Dante he's even more GOAT
Gavin Young
*is
Gabriel Scott
Come shit talk Milton to my face you little bitch-boy. Milton is an OG, one of the proudest sons of England.
Luis Wright
Because you touch yourself at night.