Recommendation | Welcoming the Publication of the Catholic Classics Series · 5

Purgatory
Song 17, Volume 3, Anger, the Road to Volume 4·21
Punished anger.
Angel of peace.
Morals of love.
Song 18, Volume 4, Laziness, 34
The emergence of love.
Love and free will.
Punished sloth.
Song 19, Book 4, Sloth, Book 5, Stinginess, 48
A dream with symbols.
Angel of Sacrificial
Hadrian V.
Song 20, Volume 5, Ganlin and Nangbi·62
Holy poverty.
Wig Cafe.
Song 21, Volume 5, Ganlin and Nangbi·79
A new companion.
The cause of the earthquake.
Two poets
Song 22, Volume 6, Going Up, Volume 6, Gluttony·93
A warm and affectionate heart.
The Sin and Repentance of Statius.
Mysterious tree.
Song 23, Volume 6, Gluttony·109
A group of people who are being punished.
Forese Donati.
Women of Florence.
Song 24, Volume 6, Gluttony·122
Piccarda Donati.
Bona Junta.
An angel of utmost virtue.
Song 25, Volume 7, Volume 7, Sexual Abuse, 137
Theory of human creation.
The sin of fornication.
An example of Jeongdeok.
Song 26, Volume 7, Four Sounds, 151
Two aspects.
Examples of adultery.
Guido Guinicelli.
Song 27, Volume 7, Four Sounds, Ascension to Paradise on Earth · 165
Angel of purity.
Through the flame.
The poet's last words.
Song 28: Paradise on Earth (178)
The River of Lethe.
The flower picking lady.
The words of a beauty.
Song 29: Paradise on Earth (192)
On the riverbank.
Mysterious procession.
The victory of the church.
Song 30: Paradise on Earth (207)
Beatrice.
The poet goes and scolds the lady.
Song 31: Paradise on Earth (221)
Dante's Confession.
Immersed in Lethe.
Song 32: Paradise on Earth (234)
The end of the line.
Flowering tree.
A symbol of the church.
Song 33: Paradise on Earth (250)
Beatrice's prophecy.
Human wisdom and divine wisdom.
The river of Eunoe.
star.

Heaven Edition
Song 1: Prologue to Heaven·267
A poem.
ascension.
The order of the universe.
Song 2, Chapter 1, Heaven - Wolcheon·281
A word to the readers.
Spot on the moon.
The influence of each heaven.
Song 3, No. 1, Thousand, 294
Souls of bliss.
Piccarda Donati.
The class of supreme happiness.
Song 4, No. 1, Thousand and Three Thousand, 305
Where is the Blessed One?
Breaking a vow.
The limits of human reason.
Song 5, No. 1, Thousand and One Thousand, 318
Flame of love.
The sanctity of vows.
Second Heaven - Mercury Heaven
Working souls.
Emperor Justinian.
Song 6, No. 2, Thousand and Three Thousand, 330
The Emperor's words.
Imperial repair.
Against the political strife.
Song 7, verse 2, verse 344
A song of parting.
The death of Christ and his atonement.
Two creatures.
Song 8, Third Heaven - Venus Heaven·357
Dante and the Souls.
Carlo Martello.
The poet's question.
Song 9, No. 371
Cunacha da Romano.
New prophecies.
Polo of Marsilia.
Song 10, The Fourth Heaven - The Sun Heaven·385
creation.
Into the sun.
Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Song 11, No. 4, Thousand and Three Thousand, 399
The two lights of the Holy Church.
Saint Francis.
The beginning of the Franciscan Order.
Song 12, No. 4, Thousand and One Thousand, 412
The nine Blessed Ones.
Saint Bonaventure.
Saint Dominic.
Song 13, No. 4, Thousand and Sixteen, 426
Dance and song.
The wisdom of Adam and Christ.
The wisdom of Solomon.
Song 14, Chapter 5 - Hwasungcheon·440
Doubts arise.
The glory of resurrection.
To Hwaseongcheon.
Warriors of Christ.
Song 15, No. 5, Thousand, 453
It's a kachagu.
Florence of old.
Dante's ancestors.
Song 16, No. 5, Thousand, 467
The pride of the family.
Kachaguida and his ancestors.
Florence yesterday and today.
Song 17, No. 5, Thousand, 482
A sad exile.
The poet's misfortune and hope.
The power of truth.
Song 18, No. 5, Thousand, 495
Souls shining on the cross.
To the Jupiter sky.
6th Heaven - Jupiter
The wages of justice.
The Pope's stinginess.
Song 19, No. 6, Thousand and Five Hundred and Eighteen
Talking repair.
The necessity of faith.
Faith and conduct.
Song 20, No. 6, Thousand and Five Thousand and Two Seconds
Songs for adults.
Faith and salvation.
Mysterious providence.
Song 21, Seventh Heaven - Saturn Heaven·536
Ladder to heaven.
Pietro Damiano.
Against luxury.
Song 22, No. 7, Thousand and Five Thousand, 549
Saint Benedict.
Corruption in the monastery.
The 8th Heaven - The Heaven of the Constant Stars
Souls of improvement.
Look at the stars and look at the ground.
Song 23, No. 8, Thousand, 563
The victory of Christ.
Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
The last hymn.
Song 24, No. 8, Thousand, 576
Apostle Peter's question.
Christian faith.
The poet's confession of faith.
Song 25, No. 8, Thousand and Five Ninety-Nine
A long sigh for Florence.
The Apostle James.
Mangdeok.
Song 26, No. 8, Thousand and Sixty-Three
God is love.
The history of love and virtue.
The poet's love for you.
Song 27, No. 8, Thousand and Sixteen
Hymn to the Holy Trinity.
Against the Pope and the bishops.
The 9th Heaven - The angels of the original moving heaven.
Characteristics of Wondongcheon.
Song 28, No. 9, Thousand and Sixty-Three
The intuition of supreme happiness.
The rank of angels.
Song 29, No. 9, Thousand, 645
Angelology.
The vanity of preachers.
The number of angels and the glory of the Lord.
Song 30, Ten Heavens - Cheonghwacheon (659)
God, angels and blessed ones.
Sea of ​​light.
Rose of Heaven.
Song 31, No. 10, 673
Angels like white roses and swarms of bees.
Saint Bernard.
Glory of the Virgin Mary.
Song 32, No. 10, 687
Adults of the White Rose.
Mary and Archangel Gabriel.
The adults of the heavenly Jerusalem.
Song 33, No. 10, Thousand, 702
Prayer and intercession to the Virgin Mary.
I saw the Holy Trinity.
The final revelation.

Dante Chronology, 716
Choi Min-sun's Chronology·720

The greatest masterpiece created by human hands

Dante's Divine Comedy is considered one of the greatest works in medieval literature and is still a classic praised as the "flower of Italian literature."
German poet Goethe even praised Dante's Divine Comedy as "the greatest masterpiece ever created by human hands."


However, not many people have actually read Dante's Divine Comedy.
It is true that the content is difficult for Korean readers because it has a Western poetry format that is unfamiliar to us and condenses the content of the Bible from Genesis to the Revelation of John.
Nevertheless, the reason why many people recommend reading Dante's Divine Comedy is because if you read it while savoring the content and imagining it, you can come into contact with the culture, scholarship, and religion of the medieval West all at once in this one book, and feel the essence of Christian literature.
In particular, since it is a literary work that weaves together the pilgrimage from hell to heaven with faith in God, Pope Benedict XV commented on this book as follows:


There have been many great and good poets who have led mankind from pleasure to virtue.
But no one has achieved the success of Dante.
Dante, with his unparalleled visionary expressions, the richness of his descriptions, and his majestic eloquence, led his readers directly to a life of devotion, and pierced their hearts with an arrow that ignited the love of Christian wisdom.
Dante achieved his goal.
- From Pope Benedict XV's 'Encyclical'

Our country's greatest religious poet
Translation by Father Choi Min-sun

“Father Choi Min-sun, who translated Don Quixote and Divine Comedy in the late 1950s, should be considered a miracle.
Of course, the translation is now sleeping in a library, but in terms of the love for the work and the pure desire to share it with readers, it is still unrivaled.”
- Translator Lee Se-wook (from a special interview celebrating the 3rd anniversary of 'Pressian Books')

The late Father Choi Min-sun (died 1975), who translated this book, is Korea's greatest religious poet, well-known for translating not only books such as St. Augustine's Confessions, Psalms and Songs, and Don Quixote, but also prayers we still use today, such as the 'Lord's Prayer' and 'Gloria in Excelsis.'
Even today, Father Choi Min-sun's translation of the Psalms is used to the fullest extent in hymns and liturgies, and his translation is melodious like a song, and it is delicious because it preserves the Korean language as much as possible.

Moreover, Father Choi Min-sun, while translating this book, left behind thousands of footnotes, making full use of his scholarly abilities. Reading the text along with these footnotes allows one to experience the essence of medieval literature even more deeply.

The footnotes in this book are so accurate that they have been referenced by other subsequent translations of the Divine Comedy. They are absolutely necessary footnotes, and because they cannot be left without an understanding of Christianity, their tone is different from that of the footnotes left by other translators.
Even a first-class translator who is fluent in the original language and Korean would not be able to translate properly without a thorough background knowledge of Christian theology and philosophy.
Because it is a footnote containing the Christian faith that Dante was trying to convey.


For this reason, the translation of Dante's Divine Comedy by Father Choi Min-sun, who won the 2nd Korean PEN Association Translation Literature Award in 1960, is still well known in academic circles as a faithful translation that preserves the beauty of the original text.
This can be said to be the result of his excellent re-creation of this work with his outstanding knowledge of Christian theology and philosophy, as well as his literary talent.
In an attempt to preserve the classic nature of this book, he even revived archaic expressions in our language and created a unique writing style.


A treasure trove of humanistic imagination

Dante's Divine Comedy is a work that comprehensively inherits the culture, religion, thought, and scholarship of the medieval West, and is still evaluated today as 'the pinnacle of all literature' and 'an immortal masterpiece in the history of human literature.'
The importance of humanities classics has been increasingly highlighted recently.
Bill Gates said, “Without the humanities, there would be no computers, and there would be no me.” Steve Jobs also said, “All of Apple’s products stand at the intersection of the humanities and technology.”
In fact, it is said that Google and Samsung Electronics have been actively hiring humanities majors recently.


Dante's Divine Comedy stands at the pinnacle of humanistic imagination.
Dante creates the worlds of the underworld, purgatory, and heaven in his imagination to visualize the topic of 'after death.'
And in this vast imagination, he synthesizes all the culture and history of the era in which he lived.
Dante's imagination has been a source of inspiration for countless artists.
It had a profound influence on Renaissance artists such as Giotto, Botticelli, and Michelangelo, as well as modern artists such as Delacroix, Rodin, Gustave Doré, and William Blake.
Milton even said that the reason he wrote Paradise Lost was because he had read Dante's Divine Comedy.


When we feel stuck and at a loss in our social lives, we often use our imagination to the best of our ability to solve problems.
That is why imagination is considered a shortcut to becoming a genius.
But just because you want to imagine doesn't mean your imagination will flow.
It is important to train your imagination in everyday life and to be able to use your imagination to solve problems at any moment.
Dante's Divine Comedy has been known for centuries as a good book for training this imagination.
It is a proven book that has served as a treasure trove of humanistic imagination.
Knowing about these books and not reading them is like not being able to take the treasure even though it is right in front of you.
For this reason TS
Even world-renowned writers like Eliot and Borges confessed that it was difficult for them to put down Dante's Divine Comedy.