When acorns were delicious

davidsmith208
Sep 3, 2017
1 min read

In canto 21 & 22 of Purgatorio of Dante, refers to the golden age of classical antiquity as a time when men found the taste of acorns good.

My thrust into old Italian:

Lo secol primo, quant' oro fu bello,

Fe' savorosi con fame le ghiande

E nettare con sete ogne ruscello

Teodolinda Barolini describes the friendship of Virgil and Stratius as "This is the most beautiful episode in the Divinia Commedia"

( see Digital Dante)

The friendship mentor like relationship reminds me of Schubert and Beethoven or

Kirpal Singh and Maharishi Raghuvacharya

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