A Chat about Dante with Tom LA Books!
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Tom I have enjoyed Inferno so much with you!!! I’ve learned so many interesting things and I’m also reading it in my Italian class so you have no idea how helpful your videos are to me. I will definitely finish la Divina Comedia with you!!! Don’t worry we won’t leave you alone in paradise!!!
How lovely to watch you two discuss this. I am so grateful to Tom for his canto by canto series. I am revelling in my weekly dose of Dante and it is making me take it slowly which is adding to my appreciation.
Thanks Roz!! Canto 30 is coming soon.
Fun interview! I wish Tom had been around when I first tacked The Inferno. He would have made it so much richer!
The divine comedy seems like something that requires foreknowledge, which is why it’s great that Tom is hosting a very extensive read along of it. There’s a significant lack of lectures about the Divine comedy on youtube - I only found one other, but it certainly wasn’t canto by canto. I also enjoy looking at the water colors done by William Blake - i believe he did one for each canto, and it is remarkable.
And i have to say, The Guelf vs. ghibellines conflict makes me think of the Big Endians vs. little Endians in Swift... what were they even fighting over, really? Just seems like senseless conflict in hindsight... lol
Awesome interview! I was reading Borges Essays on Dante(9 Dantesque Essays). He has a very interesting interpretation of the Divine comedy.
Tom needs to do an X rated video of Italian obscenities 😈
Hehe “The worst 20 Italian obscenities” 😂😂something tells me that video would get thousands of views!
@@tomlabooks3263 and as Steve said with you speaking them it will sound like poetry!
O, Roz!
Thanks again Steve - you can turn even a discussion about a medieval poem into a fun conversation!!
I like the idea of a series on The Betrothed. I read it last year (Bruce Penman trans.) and thought it was brilliant. A Leopardi series could also be marvellous.
@@bottleimpbooks Hi Matthew, one could argue that Leopardi is our second-best poet after Dante, so, thanks for that suggestion! I’d love to encourage some people to read Leopardi.
I would love a read-along of Leopardi - provided it doesn't include the Zibaldone! I intend to go the rest of my life without reading it again! I wrote about it for the old Quarterly Conversation - wish that piece were still online somewhere, but I sure can't find it!
@@saintdonoghue I’m afraid I found some bits of that! Here it is: “The ordinarily wonderful Tim Parks decides to exercise some pure malice upon his readers by not only reviewing but recommending the new English-language translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s 7000-page notebook Zibaldone. In an excess of gleeful hatred, he calls it “one of the key documents in the history of European thought,” and since he’s usually one of our best essayists, it stands to reason some readers will believe him and perhaps give this new edition of the Zibaldone a try. But they shouldn’t, and the piece should have FDA warning labels all over it. The book isn’t a book - it’s a nightmare of fragments and ramblings. It’s a sacrilege to the writing profession.” 😂😂
@@saintdonoghue I have dipped into the Zibaldone, but trying to read long stretches of it would be mentally and emotionally exhausting, I should think. His poetry, though, is exquisite.
Great! I just started reading the Comedia!
Prime video has ‘Dante’s Inferno: An animated Epic’. From 2010. I only managed 3 of the 88 minutes!
I've been waiting for this (y'all did it, _fast!)_
This was great!
Yaaas!
Alessandro Manzoni! My mother has the book translated in Portuguese.
Regarding translations, I am still very pleased with the one I am reading. I don’t see it mentioned in Booktube, maybe it’s a newer version: J. G. Nichols.
That’s one that I really haven’t heard about, but I will get a copy ! Thanks Cristina.
The book that Tom recommended to me was Marco Santagrata Dante the Story of His Life. I have found that to be enormously enormously helpful. I can definitely also recommend it, definitely worth the money.
Jennifer Is doing Inferno April 16 through 30.
That’s so great to hear, Lee. I also really enjoyed that book. Very factual and with lots of references to the Commedia.
That book was one of the first ones to appear on my channel!
What do you guys think of the Clive James translation?
I haven’t read it yet but I heard it’s a good one. I believe he used a quatrain structure that was good to recreate the sense of dynamic poetry, bit not ideal to remain very faithful to the original text. It’s a version that I look forward to reading (before making any actual comments).