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- From: rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
- Subject: Re: dante
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.195023.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:50:23 GMT
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- References: <mooreej.722008488@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> <17053@umd5.umd.edu> <1992Nov18.195106.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.195106.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>, rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
- > 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
-
- Yes, I found a quote from _Inferno_ last night and, damn it, it *is* in
- Italian! At least, it looked like Italian, it didn't look like Latin, and
- I couldn't find the words when I looked 'em up in Latin dictionaries.
-
- True, word order doesn't matter in Latin, but that's because the words were
- modified so you could match 'em up. Thus, I would expect to be able to
- determine whether "all" modified "hope" or "ye."
-
- Here's the quote; any Italian students out there?
-
- "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi, ch'entrate!"
-
- Oh, yeah, I just remembered this is alt.evil, not alt.dante. Well, I gotta
- question. Is it true that when you cut someone's head off, their brain is
- still alive for a brief time? I heard that they could even look around with
- their eyes, but this seems too far out. I haven't found a decent chopping
- instrument yet....
-
- --The Antichrist
-