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...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...
...Paradiso, the most profound and beautiful of the canticles, is a work of radiant religious majesty. Heaven, as Dante conceives it, is a seamless empyrean, a simple blazing thought in which saints and angels mystically merge in the glory of God. Nevertheless, since "thus the human mind must be addressed," Heaven arranges itself for his experience into a hierarchy of nine heavens ascending in series to the Heart of Light. Suddenly "transhumanized," the poet is swiftly borne upward through the heavens as "a falling rill that plunges from a mountain to the depths." Beatrice precedes...
Professor Contini, leading Dante authority from the University of , will speak in Italian of " Stillstica Canto del Paradiso" at 8 p.m. tonight in Boylston Auditorium...
Fish Creek, Wis., Peninsula Playhouse: A reminder of the days when bedroom farce was in flower, Hotel Paradiso...
...income is up 4% over February's low, he is paying off old bills at such a rate that credit outstanding has dropped 2% from last December's high-and his savings accounts are bursting. Despite all this, says baffled Commerce Department Economist Louis Paradiso, retail sales "still reflect the same kind of sluggishness we have had all along, but now it seems to be hanging on too darned long. It's a puzzler...