The Paradiso

Download or read book Paradiso written by Dante Alighieri and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary.

Download or read book The Paradiso written by Dante Alighieri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love.

Download or read book The Odyssey of Love written by Paul Krause and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life.

Download or read book The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paradiso...a Novel written by José Lezama Lima and published by New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1974 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of his father's premature death, Jose Cemi comes of age in a turn of the century Cuba described in the Washington Post as "an island paradise where magic and philosophy twist the lives of the old Cuban bourgeoisie into extravagant wonderful shapes." Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Download or read book The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri written by Geoffrey L. Bickersteth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1932, this book provides the complete text and translation of Dante's Paradiso, extracted from the Divine Comedy.

Download or read book Paradiso written by Steve Capelin and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of Italian peasants leave their homes in 1880 to embark on a journey to a new colony in the South Pacific. The utopian dream soon proves to be a disaster, as the poorly equipped and badly planned expedition suffers from tropical diseases and near starvation in the New Guinea wilderness. Following a dramatic rescue they eventually make their way to Australia, where they find the home they've been longing for. Based on a true story, and told by a descendent.