Inferno
$17.27
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2013
Summary
Dante’s Inferno: A Journey Through Hell
Discover Dante’s original Inferno - the inspiration for Dan Brown’s new novel - in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation.
Describing Dante’s descent into Hell 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 seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters man…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141393544 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141393548 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Dante, Robin Kirkpatrick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 13mm |
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The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism…likely to be the best modern version of Dante
The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism…likely to be the best modern version of Dante – Bernard O’Donoghue
About The Author
Dante
Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. He studied at the university of Bologna, married at the age of twenty and had four children. His first major work was La Vita Nuova (1292), a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life who had died two years earlier. In 1302, Dante’s political activism resulted in his being exiled from Florence. After years of wandering, he settled in Ravenna and in about 1307 began writing The Divine Comedy. Dante died in 1321.
Robin Kirkpatrick is a poet and widely-published Dante scholar. He has taught courses on Dante’s Divine Comedy in Hong Kong, Dublin and Cambridge, where is Fellow of Robinson College and Professor of Italian and English Literatures.
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