"Divina Commedia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other. Not carrying the weight, not pulsating in its every limb with the power of a broad, deep, involved story, architecturally reared on one foundation, whose parts are all subordinated to a great unity, the "Divina Commedia," as an organic, artistic whole, is inferior to the "Iliad" and "Paradise Lost," and to ...
— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert
... [Line 1: This "Divina Commedia," in which human science or Philosophy is symbolized in Virgil, and divine science ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various
... authors whose works he perused. His knowledge of Italian enabled him to become familiar with Dante—one of his favourite authors, whose poetical writings were deeply read by him, and who, in the elaboration of his poem, the 'Divina Commedia,' included ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard |
