Once, and to be honest I prefer a less known work of Dante, his Vita Nova for the ideas and concepts he developed also in the Monarchia.
Make no mistake, the Commedia is a masterpiece and one of the three works that spearheaded Italian literature; but sometimes it's something of a self-insert and dream-fulfillment fiction for Dante - where people he did not like or had bad blood with often represented suffering in hell and recognizing he was right all along; where is idol Virgil becomes his guide and praises him at the same time; and where Beatrice, a woman whom he spoke to only once, says she always loved him and was actually upset he would not make a move with her, despite Dante being already married and with children.
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Ha ha ha, did you just finish Wendigoon's three part video about la divina commedia?
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No I haven’t.
Hopefully at some point soon I can spend some time reading the classics like divine comedy.Not yet. I want to at some point.
I read it in High School, but that was years ago.
Only Inferno.
I watched the movie Inferno.
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