The Divine Comedy - The Booklovers video free download


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Uploaded: 2009/11/07

Neil Hannon's witty take on the literary greats.

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8 years ago

ΙΩ ΤΖΙΝΤΑ

ξανά..

8 years ago

Henry Cohn

It mentions Gore Vidal rather than Alexandre Dumas?

9 years ago

ΙΩ ΤΖΙΝΤΑ

"Happy the man, and happy he alone.. who in all honesty can call today his own..."

9 years ago

Mischelle Watson

Kafka, Poe, Wilde , Yeats...you have to add a little Bukowski into the almost perfect mix

9 years ago

Mike Sobirey

...the ultimate traveler in words...

9 years ago

ELZBIETA Kp

wow! ❤!!

9 years ago

Lesli D

Is the beginning from Paris when it Sizzles?

9 years ago

Helena Ales Pereira

"Happy the man, and happy him alone (...) I gonna live today"

9 years ago

María Alejandra

Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own...

9 years ago

MrPACO317

The Divine Comedy" redirects here. For other uses, see The Divine Comedy (disambiguation)."La commedia" redirects here. For other uses, see Commedia (disambiguation). **A request for information:**Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Michelino's frescoThis article is part of a series aboutDante's Divine ComedyInferno · Purgatorio · ParadisoThe Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between c. 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.On the surface, the poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven; but at a deeper level, it represents, allegorically, the soul's journey towards God] At this deeper level, Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".The work was originally simply titled Commedìa and was later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio. The first printed edition to add the word divina to the title was that of the Venetian humanist Lodovico Dolce, published in 1555 by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari.............Eddie

9 years ago

USERNAMEfieldempty

And where the double-buggery fuck was Bill Shakespeare, Mr. Hannon?("All The World's A Stage.")

9 years ago

Mauro Pascale

¿¿And Jorge Luis Borges??, 

9 years ago

vito possolipo

.............

10 years ago

kupadupasraka

piękne!

10 years ago

Michal AZ

Awesome, crying watching it....

10 years ago

carosupersonic

Cuando estoy triste, o cuando estoy muy feliz, vengo a este video.

10 years ago

Emilio Corti

as italian born i'm so pissed off Italo Calvino is not there! Umberto Eco can clean his shoes!

10 years ago

JJDessalines04

not so sure...two giants anyway

10 years ago

Paul Varjak

I don't know. Borges is probably more /important/ than Marquez in terms of influence on South American literature, but I think Marquez is a better writer and more relevant to the modern literary canon. The chorus (from Dryden) is the best part of the song and so true.

10 years ago

Seanklang

Interesting! How does one perform this live. Backing tracks I'm supposing....

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