Another podcasting Dante fan
I was interested in whether or not anyone else was podcasting about Dante, so I Googled it and guess what? I found this show where someone was talking about going to Florence, visiting some Dante-related sites, and then he talked about exactly why Dante is so important to literature and the Renaissance.
I couldn’t agree more. Dante’s publication of The Divine Comedy in Italian instead of Latin was nothing short of a cultural thunderbolt … scandalous, even. I had made notes to talk about this fact, and about the difficulties of translating the work from that early version of Italian to more modern English while not destroying the beauty of the poetry itself, but in the interests of time those topics had to get whacked.
