{"id":8115,"date":"2021-04-10T06:13:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T13:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=8115"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:20:44","slug":"divine-comedy-chapter-a-day-read-along-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/divine-comedy-chapter-a-day-read-along-wrap-up","title":{"rendered":"Divine Comedy Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8116\" src=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Divine_Comedy_Giovanni_di_paolo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1289\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Divine_Comedy_Giovanni_di_paolo.jpeg 1289w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Divine_Comedy_Giovanni_di_paolo-300x145.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Divine_Comedy_Giovanni_di_paolo-500x241.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Divine_Comedy_Giovanni_di_paolo-768x371.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1289px) 100vw, 1289px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we have reached the final chapter of <em>The Divine Comedy<\/em>, the first book of the 2021 Chapter-a-Day Read-along. For the past 100 days we have accompanied Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, and it has been quite the journey. I have to admit that this was one of the most challenging chapter-a-day read-alongs for me. There is so much depth to Dante&#8217;s poetry and there were so many footnotes that I feel I just scratched the surface of the poem. A daily read-along is probably not the best way to read the poem in the way it deserves to be read, but still I feel like this read-along has given me a good sense of the poem&#8217;s overall organization and layout. I believe that a deep reading of a work of literature should always begin with an initial reading of the book all the way through, and I think I now have enough of an understanding of <em>The Divine Comedy<\/em> that I would be in good shape to study it more thoroughly. And even without understanding every single reference, it was still a wonderful read. I definitely liked the Ciardi translation, especially the quality of the notes, but if I read Dante again I think I will go back to the translation by Mark Musa.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? This post is for you to leave your thoughts about your experience in reading this landmark of world literature. What did you gain from reading it? What challenged you? What uplifted you? What surprised you?<\/p>\n<p>Leave your comments below and feel free to engage with others who leave their comments. Let me know if you post your reflections on your own blog and I will link to it here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leapinglife.com\/2021\/04\/07\/14-weeks-with-dante-reflections-on-reading-the-divine-comedy\/\">14 Weeks with Dante: Reflections on Reading the Divine Comedy<\/a> &#8211; Liz at LeapingLife.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tomorrow, it&#8217;s on to <em>Quo Vadis<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have reached the final chapter of The Divine Comedy, the first book of the 2021 Chapter-a-Day Read-along. For the past 100 days we have accompanied Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, and it has been quite the journey. I have to admit that this was one of the most challenging chapter-a-day read-alongs for me. There is so much depth to Dante&#8217;s poetry and there were so many footnotes that I feel I just scratched the surface of the poem. A daily read-along is probably not the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Divine Comedy Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-Up #divinecomedyreadalong","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1219],"tags":[1137,1141,1138],"class_list":["post-8115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-chapter-a-day-read-along","tag-2021-chapter-a-day-read-along","tag-dante-alighieri","tag-divine-comedy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Divine_Comedy_Giovanni_di_paolo.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-26T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8123,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions\/8123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}