What am I in for /lit/?
>>7511460
>calling it dante's infero and not dante's divine comedy
you're in for a WORLD OF PAIN BOYYY
>>7511460
If you're reading in Italian, you're in for one of the top four or five literary experiences of your life.
If you're reading in translation, you're wasting your time.
In either case, I would read Aquinas' Summa Theologica either before you read Dante or immediately afterwards. The Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".
>>7511484
I dont plan on reading the other two parts right away. I like to break away mid way threw novels
>>7511489
>reading translations
>>7511460
Should i read the Commedy first, or Vita Nuova? What about Convivio?
>>7511489
>reading Aquinas
Terrible meme bruh
>>7512627
this
>>7511489
>If you're reading in translation, you're wasting your time.
So, you're saying that the only good thing about The Comedy is the verse? Well then, Dante isn't much of a writer.
>>7511460
I enjoyed the fart jokes–!
>>7511489
>le
>translation
>meme
>>7511460
Florentine politics, and another prime example of how poetry simply cannot be translated.
>>7511489
>you should speak in every language meme
>>7513814
Not that guy, and I wont say you're wasting your time reading it either, but poetry really, memes aside, simply does not translate well at all.
>>7513826
its really poetry tho, i thought its epic poem
>>7511511
>I dont plan on reading the other two parts
Then you are a pleb
>>7511484
>calling it Divine Comedy
>not just Dante's Comedy
'Divine' is how Petrarch descrived it; the real name's Comedy
What are some good sites to learn languages?? Memrise, duolingo something else?
>>7514247
>not calling it "Comedìa"
PLEB
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FUCKING DANTE POETRY WRITING FAGGOT
