Word: paradiso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rome in the springtime. Tito Beppi of the Teatro Paradiso seeks the aid of the specialist Gambella, to cure the fits of terrible anguish and tears that torment him. In the waiting room he meets Luigi Ravelli, the roisterer and squire of dames, who has come to be treated, not for tears, but uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta...
From within his "Paradiso" Dante once made Beatrice prophesy the advent of a ruler "who, below, shall be august; and who shall come to direct Italy upon the right path". The poet had formed the vision of an imperial figure who should restore the Holy Roman Empire, and bring all the factions of a disunited Italy under his sole command. This man was to come forth soon, and he had even been designated as Henry VII--then nominally the emperor. But Henry died an ignoble death, having accomplished less than nothing, and Dante was forced to postpone the date...
...work of especial interest at this time is a translation of Dante's "Paradiso" by Courtney Langdon, professor of romance languages at Brown University. This is the final volume in a series of translation of Dante's works by Professor Langdon, the others being "Inferno" and "Purgatorio". The "Paradiso" is especially opportune at this time, coming as it does in the year of the 600th anniversary of Dante's death. In the celebration in Italy on the occasion this summer, Professor Langdon will be one of America's delegates, and the "Paradise" will be the University's contribution...