#he said 'hey let's combine Italy's greatest cultural exports in a gorgeously organic way'
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if you think hearing it spoken is incredible, boy howdy am I delighted to inform you that you can hear (a very small part of) it sung. o p e r a t i c a l l y.
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excerpted from Paradiso, Canto 15:
Come saranno a’ giusti preghi sorde quelle sustanze che, per darmi voglia ch’io le pregassi, a tacer fur concorde?
Bene è che sanza termine si doglia chi, per amor di cosa che non duri etternalmente, quello amor si spoglia.
Quale per li seren tranquilli e puri discorre ad ora ad or sùbito foco, movendo li occhi che stavan sicuri,
e pare stella che tramuti loco, se non che da la parte ond’ e’ s’accende nulla sen perde, ed esso dura poco
Columbia maintains the awesome Digital Dante website, so you can read a side-by-side translation of your choice, plus enjoy glorious nerdy academic commentary, associated art
IF YOURE AN ENGLISH SPEAKER HERES SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW:
IN THE ORIGINAL ITALIAN, DANTE'S INFERNO RHYMES. THE ENTIRE THING.
#literature#music#opera#poetry#emma shapplin#dante's divine comedy#I will confess that this track comes from the red planet soundtrack#not a great movie but the soundtrack went way harder than it needed to#some of the tracks are bewildering but the score is where it just shines#graeme revell went for it#the mad bastard really did it#he said 'hey let's combine Italy's greatest cultural exports in a gorgeously organic way'#'and then bury them under a narrative about a malfunctioning murderbot hunting val kilmer on mars'
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