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...Dante's masterpiece remains the universal truth of its central story--that of finding oneself spiritually lost. Dante writes in the first tercet, the story of the pilgrim's journey is that of "nostra vita," "our life," not just his. And Dante's guide through hell, Virgil, observes in canto XII: "It is necessity,/And not just pleasure, that puts him on this road...
Pinsky's attention to the original language of the poem is notably apparent in canto XIII. In his description of the suicides--those condemned for being violent against themselves--Dante fills the canto with the language of negation...
Pinsky remains faithful to the importance of the canto's "negativeness," which stems from suicide's result--the negation of the soul. The repetition of "no"s and "not"s evokes Dante's contrapasso, his system of retributive justice in which sin is literalized...
Siff studied to become a tenor in the Italian bel canto style, but detoured into a career as a cabaret performer and teacher of theater voice. He launched La Gran Scena in 1981, gradually building a repertory based on 19th century classics and a company of free-lance singers, most of whom have opera careers elsewhere in their natural voices. Indeed, Siff is one of only two non- conservatory-train ed singers in the troupe...
...remember one lecture [Cole gave] on the 33rd Canto of Dante's Inferno," Cameron E. Half '97 says. "He just went through a few times pointing out different elements of the story each time through. He did a wonderful job bringing forth meaning that had not been readily apparent...