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Dante's Divine Comedy - Part One: Hell. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray by Dante Alighieri; Alasdair Gray
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One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante's masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme.Accessible, moder ...Show more
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Irish Classics Ser.
This convenient single-volume edition contains all three parts of Dante's 14th-century poem . Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.It is an acclaimed translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Combining classical and Christian history as well as medieval politics and religion, this trilogy of ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
This is a new prose translation of Dante's epic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages. This edition includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship as well as 16 short essays on special subjects at the end of the book.
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” read the now-famous words above the gate through which Dante, the protagonist of Inferno, crosses the threshold. But that forbidding inscription applies only to those without faith; and though Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell begins with terror and c ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth. Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inf ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
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'Through me you go to the grief-wracked city. Through me to everlasting pain you go . . . ' Depicting one man's horrifying journey into the depths of Hell, Inferno, the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, is a soaring spiritual epic that continues to echo through the centuries with its moving portrayal ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in whi ...Show more
Paradise by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
"If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen's] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come."-Robert Royal, "Crisis" In this, the concluding volume of "The Divine Comedy," Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved Beatrice, he ...Show more
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the "Divine Comedy", Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he g ...Show more
Purgatorio: The Divine Comedy II by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
In "Purgatorio", Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from them can he achieve his final enlightened transiti ...Show more