Inferno
by Dante Alighieri · first published 1767
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Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.
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4th-5th century: Confessions and City of God by St. Augustine 13th century: Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas 14th century: The Divine Comedy (includes Inferno) by Dante Alighieri 20th century: Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, Humanae Vitae (Theology of the Body) by Pope Paul VI
on “Ask HN: Which is the best spiritual book you have read?” ↗…other in such a way that I was entertained as children are entertained today with a smartphone. I don't remember if I read the last book in the Robert Langdon series, but I have to say that after reading Inferno, I had to read Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Nowadays I'm always reading something. This first experience was important and the books I chose evolved as I matured in reading. 0: https://www.ebay.com/itm/184865824842
on “Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013)” ↗…’60s – ’80s) Raw (comic, ’80s) Viz (comic, early ’80s) Paris Review, The - Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley Ackroyd, Peter - Hawksmoor Alighieri, Dante - Inferno Amis, Martin - Money Baldwin, James - Fire Next Time, The Barnes, Julian - Flaubert’s Parrot Bellow, Saul - Herzog Braine, John - Room At The Top Broyard, Anatole - Kafka Was The Rage Bulgakov,…
on “David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (2013)” ↗It's not any worse than Dante Alighieri's Inferno, or the mythic punishments for Sisyphus, Tantalus, Prometheus, or Loki. Nor is it as tediously psychological as Sartre's No Exit (Huis Clos). I assure you, I am well aware of the boundary between fact…
on “Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]” ↗And just to stay on the Classics, Dante Alighieri in the Inferno has a devil called Barbariccia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbariccia https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy/Inferno/Can... « Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.» « And he had made…
…require the addition of sodomy. Therefore, the latter is a graver moral evil. (Additional note: while Dante Alighieri is not an approved moral theologian, many Catholics see his breakdown of Hell in the Inferno to be quite valuable; Dante places sodomites in the seventh circle with usurers and blasphemers, while those simply guilty of lust are placed in the second circle). [ EDIT: For more info on this particular…
on “Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests” ↗