/lit/ - Literature

Was thinking of getting Dante's Inferno, should I get the whole Divine Comedy or I'll be fine just with the Inferno part?

Reminder that if you’re trying to work in any medium other than epic poetry you are wasting your time.

I want to learn Italian so I can read Dante but I keep seeing people say that his archaic Italian is too different than the modern language. Yet I can’t find any books or courses to learn Dante’s Italian. Can anyone point me in the direction to learning archaic Italian?

look up the Kitab- Al Miraj

The Kitab al Miraj (Arabic: كتاب المعراج "Book of the Ascension") is a Muslim book concerned with Muhammad's ascension into Heaven (known as the Miraj), following his miraculous one-night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem (the Isra). The book is divided into 7 chapters, and was written in Arabic using the Naskh script.

Kitab al-Miraj is believed to have been written by Abu'l-Qasim 'Abdalkarîm bin Hawâzin bin 'Abdalmalik bin Talhah bin Muhammad al-Qushairî al-Nisaburi أبو القاسم عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة بن محمد القشيري (born 376 A.H./ 986 CE - died 465 A.H./ 1072 CE).

In the second half of the 13th century, the book was translated into Latin (as Liber Scale Machometi) and Spanish, and soon thereafter (in 1264 CE) into Old French.[1] Its Islamic depictions of Hell are believed by some scholars to have been a major influence on Dante's (born 1265 CE - died 1321 CE) 14th century masterpiece, the Divine Comedy (completed in 1320), including Miguel Asín Palacios, and Enrico Cerulli .

>>11844826

>tfw midway through life and lost in a forest primeval

They stole it from the italians

>>11789027
You can't realize things that aren't true. Dante has never been surpassed.

How do I learn a language through reading the original and a translation side by side? The version of The Divine Comedy has both, and I want to try understand the original to better appreciate the poetry of it

was Dante a cuck?

Is there something i must know before start reading the divine comedy?

Pic related, it’s Dante.

Everyone else mentioned in this thread is just an edgemeister, though they can be fun to read.

Will we ever see one like him in our lifetime?

Man can you imagine a modern writer self-inserting himself with his oneitis and becoming literary genius of the century

>his language isn't a literary project invented by novelists and poets
Sad!

Dude Beatrice lmao

>>10914568
>Nothing takes 800 pages to say

>Self-inserts himself in his work of fiction
>...With his oneitis
>Also makes people who made his fee fees hurt suffer

lmao imagine modern writers doing this