Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Dante night by night

A new project: to read a canto a night from Dante's Divine Comedy. The edition: Robert Durling's OUP three volume, dual language version with end notes that inform rather than patronise. Best read sotto voce I find rather than silently. Letting the images created by Dante, augmented by Botticelli's, merge in the hypnogogic slide into the unconscious. Then see what happens......

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