Readings on the Paradiso of Dante, Vol. 1 of 2 : Chiefly Based on the Commentary of Benvenuto Da Imola (Classic Reprint) by William Warren Vernon
Excerpt from Readings on the Paradiso of Dante, Vol. 1 of 2: Chiefly Based on the Commentary of Benvenuto Da Imola
In the preface to my volumes on the Inferno, published in 1894, I expressed the hope that life and ability might be vouchsafed to me to cope with the mystic beauties of the Paradiso, and to complete the attempt made in these Readings to make plain to a beginner the difficulties of the three immortal cantiche. Life has been spared to me, and with great diffidence I now present the completion of my work.
It has been thoughtlessly said that there is a falling away of human interest in the Paradiso, as if humanity were only interested in the weaknesses and vices of our race, but nowhere else, throughout the Divina Commedia, can be found such pictures of great and good men made perfect, nowhere can the gentlest, as well as the noblest, of human aspirations be seen in so many and so varied forms. Perfect love, in its highest and purest manifestation, is here pictured by a pencil wielded with exquisite grace and power. But the great and good actions of man are not forgotten. The majestic summary of Roman history, placed in the mouth of Justinian, seems to be spoken to the sound of the marching feet of triumphant legions.
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