Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Audiobooks | 15 May 2008
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Read by John Shrapnel
Running Time: c.80 minutes
13 mp3 (192 kbps)
Dante’s
vision The Divine Comedy has profoundly affected every generation since
it first appeared in the early fourteenth century. Here is a brief
account of his life, compiled from various sources (including his first
biographer, Boccaccio) by Benedict Flynn, whose new translation of the
Comedy on Naxos AudioBooks, read by Heathcote Williams, has been widely
acclaimed. It sets the known facts of Dante’s life against the turmoil
of the times, and puts the very personal nature of his poetry into
perspective.
"It would be impudent to tell intelligent, grown-up people how to think. All I have tried to do here is to assemble certain known facts about the human mind and put them in plain English. " R.F.
Carbon - the basis of life Carbon forms the basis of all organic life and has the amazing ability to bond with itself and a wide range of other elements, forming nearly 10 million known compounds. It is in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the shampoo we use and the petrol that fuels our cars. Because carbon has the largest range of subtle bonding capabilities, 95% of everything that exists in the universe is made up of carbon atoms that are stuck together.
