Inferno, Canto III, The Gates of Hell. Every canto opens with a summary.
Canticle III · The Dante Curriculum
Paradiso
The third canticle of the Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · translated by Joe Carlson
How do you imagine unimaginable joy? How can you behold blinding holiness? Dante’s Paradiso gives our imagination a hint of the beauty to come, by uncovering the deepest reality of the life we are living now.
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About Paradiso
The Love that moves the sun
Dante’s staggering imagination helps us hear and see as much as we can, as he walks his pilgrim through the heavenly spheres, singing their songs of praise, and into the very presence of the Triune God. It is his journey, and our own, to the Beatific Vision, to stand before the Supreme Good, to move in concert with the Love that moves the sun and the other stars. These are the riches our modern, impoverished imaginations need.
In this new translation of the final canticle of Dante’s Comedy, poet and author Joe Carlson brings his blank verse rendition to an end, suffused with the light and dance of the original Italian, while maintaining a readability students and scholars alike will appreciate.
Give thanks, give thanks
to the Sun of angels Who to this sphere
of perceiving has raised you by His grace.
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Translated and taught by
Dr. Joe Carlson
Joe Carlson holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Culture from New Saint Andrews College, and an MA in Humanities and a PhD in Literature from the University of Dallas. He is a Senior Editor with Roman Roads Press and a Literature professor at New Saint Andrews College.
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