Ora di leggere!

So since I haven't been doing anything lately or blogging, I've decided to do something quite "literal". Being that my goal in life is to become an Italian teacher at the high school level, and maybe-BIGGGG maybe here-to teach Italian at the University level later on, I need to get pro-active on the literature.

I have had a copy of Dante's Inferno since I was probably in 8th grade, when my obsession with the Italian culture, language, and country began. It sat on my bookshelf dusty and unread for about four years or so, when in senior year I began flipping through its pages, trying to make sense of the vernacular, terza rima lines that Alighieri wrote, flowing so beautifully on the page. However, I never made it past the first few pages as I was constantly reading other books for required reading, working, didn't have any actual study guides or teachings to help me fully grasp its concepts or my attention for long....however it wasn't long in college before I once again picked up the now yellowing copy of Inferno, actually reading a passage here, passage there for my literature classes for my major. However, I want to experience it more and actually be able to possibly use it for reference and understand it even more the next time I have to read it for more advanced college courses, or for even teaching it. Nobody, I think, will ever be able to say they fully understand Dante's work of art, but here's to trying!

Soo here's my goal: I went out to the bookstore yesterday, bought Purgatorio and Paradiso, and I am going to read La Divina Commedia in tutto, or the whole Divine Comedy.

I will give myself until Easter Sunday...which is I believe the time at the end of the Divine Comedy where Dante ends his story.

It begins on Good Friday and ends on Easter Sunday...so three books, 100 cantos, and thousands of lines later is only supposed to take three days in real time, so pray for me. Will be starting Inferno tonight and hopefully will have blogging material by Monday. I want to at least get 3 cantos in per blog...this whole idea of the 3 meaning Trinity in Dantespeak. (No not Dante's Peak like the 1997 movie with Linda Hamilton and Pierce Brosnan....Dantespeak, like a language..hahaha....I'm a nerd.)

Buona Fortuna a me!