Showing posts with label The Paradiso. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Paradiso. Show all posts

Friday, September 2, 2022

The Friday 56 (221) & Book Beginnings: The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice where every Friday you pick a book and turn to page 56 or 56%, and select a sentence or a few, as long as it's not a spoiler. For the full rules, visit the the page HERE

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading.


Synopsis from Goodreads...
In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love.



Beginning: "The glory of Him who moves all things rays forth
                     through all the universe, and it reflected
                     from each thing in proportion to its worth."

56: "Yet all these were creations! Ought not they--
       if what you said of them before is true--
       to be forever proof against decay?'"


Comments: I finished reading Paradise, so I'm officially done with The Divine Comedy. This was a sweeping epic story, and I enjoyed every second of it. What are you reading this week?

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