Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)

Tonight we are going to meet online from 8:55 PM to 11:00 PM to read aloud together, taking turns:

• Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)

The text is available from http://dantelab.dartmouth.edu , https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy_(Longfellow_1867) , or https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004 .

Possibly, we will also follow, in parallel, the modern translation by Robert Hollander from https://dante.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/commedia.html .

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The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in the great classics of Literature.

Participants are invited to have a copy of the texts with them (either the book, or as printed paper, or as digital copy on an electronic device).

A copy of the texts will be shared during the reading.

At 8:55 PM we will start with a microphone and video test.

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