Misleading Simplicity: 'The Great Divorce' and the 'Divine Comedy'
Dante’s Comedy is famous, or should we say notorious, for being ‘difficult’, so thoroughly medieval as to be irrelevant for current readers. Most of this is a misapprehension based on the first canticle, Inferno, which few have actually read. Purgatorio and Paradiso are almost never mentioned. With...
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press
2019-12-01
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Series: | Linguaculture |
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Online Access: | https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home/article/view/150 |