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Post by ineedyourhelp on May 20, 2004 19:54:17 GMT -5
About the story of Dante and Beatrice? I think Lemony mentiones it somewhere or another. All I know is that they meet in paradise.
Please tell me.
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Post by Sapphire on May 20, 2004 20:26:32 GMT -5
Sorry, don't know what you're tallin' about. I don't recall ever hearing about this. What's it about?
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Post by Antenora on May 21, 2004 10:01:17 GMT -5
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Post by kjlsnicket29 on May 23, 2004 21:39:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I know about Beatrice and Dante, I haven't read the Inferno, but I have heard all about it.
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Post by Sora on May 24, 2004 0:46:14 GMT -5
Could you post what quidditch.com says about it? I can't seem to bring up the page.
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Post by Antenora on May 24, 2004 10:05:02 GMT -5
....And I quote:
<<Beatrice: Once upon a time a Tuscan poet named Dante had a crush on a woman he couldn't have and wrote The Divine Comedy, a journey through the universe he knew, so he could meet up with her in Paradise. But first he needed to go through Inferno, or what we in English call Hell....>>
Beatrice is the personification of divine spiritual love; that much I know for sure. The name Beatrice means either "traveler" or "blessed one", both of these meanings significant to The Divine Comedy. If you have any other questions, I may be able to answer them.
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Post by kjlsnicket29 on May 24, 2004 16:48:45 GMT -5
Wow, I never knew the meaning of the name, thanks  ! |
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Post by ineedyourhelp on May 24, 2004 19:48:46 GMT -5
kewl, thanx!
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Post by Sora on May 24, 2004 23:54:18 GMT -5
All praise Tocuna! ;D  |
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Post by ineedyourhelp on May 25, 2004 18:42:21 GMT -5
We Are Not Worthy! ;D lol
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Post by Antenora on May 25, 2004 19:26:04 GMT -5
*Basks in reflected glory* Bask bask bask. Thank you.
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Post by Sora on May 26, 2004 1:59:25 GMT -5
Anyway*not meaning to steal glory from Tocuna, for all means bask in it for as long as you want* Do you think anyone called Dante will show up in the series any time soon? I sure hope so.
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Post by Antenora on May 26, 2004 9:59:43 GMT -5
That would be weird. But in a good way.
It would be strange if The Divine Comedy turns out to be revelant to the series in a cryptographical sort of way, like the poems of Swinburne in book 10. About 2 months ago, my lit class read excerpts from the Inferno and had really peculiar discussions, and my lit teacher shows signs of being a VFDer(see VFD-Related Coincidences)
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Post by Antenora on May 28, 2004 10:07:15 GMT -5
Anyway, tomorrow or sometime around then I will likely recieve a book called Dante in Love, which will tell more about Beatrice, and I will tell you what I find out. And it should be noted that Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem called La Beatrice, which is somehow related to The Divine ComedyRead a translation of La Beatrice here. |
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Post by Antenora on Jun 2, 2004 17:29:10 GMT -5
I apologise for the delay, but now I have that book. Here is what I found out so far: Dante was in love with Beatrice, but she ended up marrying Simone di Bardi a rich nobleman, the son of a banker. If you want to draw parallels to the Snicket story, and I think we all do, Lemony is in Dante's place. I'm not sure how the rest of the story would correlate, and I'm not sure if Daniel Handler intended the symbolism to run really deep. You decide. In the meantime, check out Dante Aligheiri On The Web, a site linked to at Quidditch.com. |
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