/lit/ - Literature

>>7104143
I've only read up to about 1/2 through Purgatorio
Without notes you're going to miss A LOT
With notes a somewhat short book turns into W&P
You really really should read the Greeks (and Virgil) first

>>6401943
>and the classical and (to a lesser extent) scriptural references are lost on me. Worse still, the Italians-- I don't know any of them, they mean nothing to me.
The notes for the book turn it from a small 200 pager to at least a 700 pager or so. Almost every line is a metaphor for something

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