| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Nrh (0)
12/23/2006 | My favorite book. I read the Inferno at least once a year. To me it is as enthralling as any modern work. I always feel as if I am traveling through hell. It is interesting what sins are deemed worse than others.
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 | irishgit (151)
01/31/2004 | A lot of care and some research is needed before finding the right translation. Hardly to everyone's taste, the first two cycles (Hell and Purgatory) are more interesting than the third (Paradise)
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 | Smokefree (0)
11/06/2003 | Havent read this one in a while. May be remembering it poorly.
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 | Enkidu (38)
09/25/2003 |  I don't know how I can do justice to the Divine Comedy in a comment on an opinion website. What am I going to say--that it is one of the great glories of western civilization, and I think everyone should go out and read it? Not everyone can, in our attention-deficit-disorder, fast-food, sound-bite age; few people have the concentration or focus to grapple with this colossal, incredibly detailed, perfectly symmetrical work. A whole universe is contained in these pages. Written before 1320, it is really late Medieval in thought, but Renaissance in passion and energy. An interesting sidelight is that few commentators have noticed just how heretical it was to place Beatrice on a par with Jesus Christ in Paradiso (Beatrice was the girl Dante had loved and idolized in his youth). The third section, Paradiso, is the hardest for a contemporary reader to understand, but in many ways the most beautiful. Read it and you will never forget the River of Light, or the Mystic Rose. There was only one Dante. Read him.
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 | Shukhevych (1)
12/07/2002 | I love his descriptions of the levels of hell and its occupants. And his description of the deepest circle was very clever.
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 | Swwtnsour (0)
01/09/2001 | The Inferno was really interesting and creative, but it gets long after awhile. Purgatory is a little more lively and still creative, but not as visual. Paradisio was really weird and dumb and I don't know where he got those ideas, but the idea of God being beams of light was lame, but I guess nobody has anything better.
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| druehlo (0)
11/20/2000 | Very symbolic and mystical! A theological classic. Based upon Dante's assumed visions in 1800. A must read for persons studying or interested in philosophy, English or religion.
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 | ender (0)
11/17/2000 | Dante's book on Heaven and Hell is filled with symbolism. It takes a while to sift through it, to figure out what he's saying, but it's very interesting. Interestingly enough, the original was written in Italian, while most works of that period were in Latin. Unless you read Latin or Italian, beware that some of the translation does get lost as often happens, but the book is worth the effort if the myth of Hell interests you.
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| mikeyd (0)
11/16/2000 | A trip through Hell. Most know classical and current characters through folklore. Much use of innuendo and double entendres. Work is satirical humor and critical of the Roman Catholic church. Not to everyone's taste.
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| lemoggs (0)
11/07/2000 | This is an interesting and brilliant attempt to conceptualize the nature of hell. So many of our modern portrayals of hell in the movies are directly based upon this work and owe more to the magnificence of this Middle Age great one. It's also important to note that this work portrays the culmination of Middle Age thought and their outlook on mans' place in the cosmos.
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 | jacknili (0)
10/20/2000 | Three books cover the main alternatives to life on earth according to major western christianity in 17th century Europe: Purgatory, Heaven and Hell. They are told from the perspective of a traveller through them, and are amazing when you apply them to human nature in general (if you get a good translation).
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| Eugenia (0)
09/30/2000 | Haven't finished it yet; it is overwhelmingly deep. Somebody make it into a movie!
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| e2003163om (0)
12/13/1999 | One of the world's spiritual classics.
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 | donb2950et (0)
12/13/1999 | This is the most rewarding piece of literature i have ever read.
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