How long does it take to read The Paradiso?
The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri takes about 7 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1595. 418 pages, about 114,950 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 291 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God.
Subjects: Poetry, Heaven, Paradise, Bibliography, Dictionaries, Rime
