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- From: rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
- Subject: Re: dante
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:51:06 GMT
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- In article <17053@umd5.umd.edu>, jmoore@lab2.smcm.edu (Joshua D. Moore) writes:
-
- > it did indeed come from the first book of the divine comedy, inferno the
- > other parts are pugatorio, and paradisio, hell, purgatory and heaven. it
- > details the authors trip through these planes of reality looking for his
- > girlfriend who had died. it was written in latin as that was the language
- > of the educated at the time, and one of the little quirks of latin is that
- > word order is irrelevant so i imagine that it doesnt matter which of the
- > two translations you use, it is personal interpritation. little note,
- > dante put a great many church officials, notably the pope of the time and
- > the archbishop of the city he was from, in hell.
- >
- > -samael.
-
- You know, I could have *sworn* that the Divine Comedy was written in the
- Vulgar. I distincly remember learning that in 3 different history classes.
-
- The point of it was that in the Renaissance, authors were moving away from
- Latin in favor of native languages.
-
- Does word order matter in Italian?
-
- --The Antichrist
-