Dante's Inferno
|N the early morning of the Friday be- | fore Easter in the year 1300, the poet | Dante found himself, in a metaphorical | sense, lost in a forest, his way out barred | by a wolf, a lion and a leopard. Soon, | however, a helper appeared, the poet | Virgil, who explained that he had been instructed by three ladies on high to | guide him through the perils of the In-_ ferno and Purgatory back to the seat | of the godhead. So begins Dante's great | allegory, The Divine Comedy, whose aim, says the poet, is not to delight but to re- | prove and exhort, and help form men’s | ; | 7 characters by showing them the perils of life. Such a severe and practical aim has not prevented subsequent ages en- | joying the poem and continually re- | translating it to suit the language of the time. The BBC has now issued a new, series of six readings from the first book of The Inferno with Marius Goring and Esme Percy reading the parts of Dante and Virgil respectively, These will be heard from 1YC on February 9 and 3YC_ on February 5. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 11
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189Dante's Inferno New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 11
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