DIVINA COMMEDIA - DANTE ALIGHIERI

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There's some score settling, sure, but also almost everyone in hell is a notable, whose breach of a taboo bringeth misery upon the whole tribe.

He never explicitly says what happens to, say, peasants who steal bread when starving or get pregnant out of wedlock. If pressed he'd probably say something socially acceptable to the times, and thus horrible to us, but in this gap in the poem there is a tacit handwave re: ordinary people and their sins.

Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 11 November 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link

The version I read was the Mark Musa one. Anyone have opinions on the Dorothy Sayers version?

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 12 November 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link


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