tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8917158095718053429..comments2024-03-28T06:41:07.968-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: "Another voice, then"Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-32140579803713150332017-04-30T10:16:48.576-05:002017-04-30T10:16:48.576-05:00I point to that moment as the beginning of modern ...I point to that moment as the beginning of modern literature. Dante an Virgil arrive in hell, and up wander Ovid, Lucid and ... someone else. They say, in essence, "Oh look! It's Dante!" and they wander off, chatting. Dante turns toward the reader and says, "I won't bore you with what we talked about -- poetic stuff." I love that detail. There's a conversation, but I'm not telling you. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73989642584889795372017-04-30T07:58:06.981-05:002017-04-30T07:58:06.981-05:00I deal with a tortuous commute by listening to the...I deal with a tortuous commute by listening to the Great Courses and Modern Scholar series of classes and am doing Timothy Shutt's class on Dante's Commedia, and Dante's ego comes up periodically -- completely justified, sccording to Shutt. Shutt especially likes the passage in limbo where Virgil and Dante come across the greatest (pre-Christian) poets whoever lived, and they see Dante and say in effect "Dante, old buddy, join the club! Sit and talk a spell!"Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03634642987617262810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67044553591003667882017-04-29T15:06:15.579-05:002017-04-29T15:06:15.579-05:00"Okay, I'd have certainly read about it.&..."Okay, I'd have certainly read about it." "Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told." Umberto Eco, "the Name of the Rose."<br /><br />From what Michelangelo famously said about the Ghiberti doors, Neil might consider that he has spent 20 minutes in Paradise.<br /><br />I've read the "Commedia," but obviously not with Neil's zeal and intensity. But I can see how immersion in Dante and his time is a good entry into the astonishing two or three centuries of artistic, scientific and literary creativity that followed him in his home town.<br /><br />And, beyond the art, modern Florence can be a magical place, particularly at night. The food. The virtuosic street performers. And the gelato. Can't forget the gelato.<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39822574046212347502017-04-29T11:18:37.925-05:002017-04-29T11:18:37.925-05:00I remember one of the Dante books I mentioned last...I remember one of the Dante books I mentioned last year which I found at the library, illustrating the exterior and interior of the Baptistery of San Giovanni. I've been meaning to purchase that book; so nice to read about it from Neil's perspective.<br /><br />(I found another edition of Divine Comedy this morning at the Arl. Hts. library book sale; had to buy it. Very large book, printed in 2012 and translated by Henry W. Longfellow. Lots of illustrations.)<br /><br />SandyKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-54589965208372595122017-04-29T10:36:54.018-05:002017-04-29T10:36:54.018-05:00You make a damn fine travel commentator; you could...You make a damn fine travel commentator; you could make a career of it!!BethB from Indianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15294626495777153996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-83462086358021538902017-04-29T08:49:14.095-05:002017-04-29T08:49:14.095-05:00We share the same problems as Dante: all our best ...We share the same problems as Dante: all our best ideas were stolen by the ancients.mellowjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16543634125013198207noreply@blogger.com