![]() says it is as different as chalk from cheese - heaven from hell, would be more appropriate!) or whether I was specially receptive, but it certainly seemed to me that I had never seen at all what Dante was like before. ![]() I don’t know whether it is really very different from the Inferno (B. Lewis visited his friend Owen Barfield for a few days, and the two did “some solid reading together.” After lunch they would take a walk, then read Dante’s Paradise (in Italian) the rest of the day.Īfterward, Lewis described this experience to his friend Arthur Greeves: (At that time his brother Warren was reading Dante.) Six years later, in the spring of 1929, Lewis reluctantly decided that there is a God but he did not yet believe in Christianity or an afterlife.Īt the beginning of January in 1930 C. When he was twenty-three he mentioned in his diary that he disbelieved in immortality and that Dante’s “facts” were outdated. Lewis read Dante’s Inferno in Italian when he was in his teens, and he read Dante’s Purgatory in the hospital when he was recovering from wounds he received in the inferno of World War One. Lewis has gone almost unnoticed until now. The strong influence of Dante’s Paradise in the life and writing of C. Lewis and Dante’s Paradise The Lewis Legacy-Issue 82, Autumn 1999 Kathryn Lindskoog SeptemCS Lewis The C.S. ![]() ![]() Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba EmailĬ. ![]()
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