Inferno: The Divine Comedy I
the divine comedy i
$36.90
- Hardcover
576 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2011
Summary
A Harrowing Descent: Dante’s Inferno
Describing Dante’s descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of the seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political en…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141195872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141195878 |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
| Author: | Dante, Robin Kirkpatrick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 687g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 137mm x 35mm |
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About The Author
Dante
Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. Considered Italy’s greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is La Vita Nuova (1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. Married to Gemma Donatic, Dante’s political activism resulted in his being exiled from Florence to eventually settle in Ravenna. It is believed that The Divine Comedy-comprised of three canticles, The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso-was written between 1308 and 1320. Dante Alighieri died in 1321.
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