The Divine Comedy
- ISBN-10
- 1840221666
- ISBN-13
- 9781840221664
- Series
- The Divine Comedy
- Category
- Italian poetry
- Pages
- 566
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
- Author
- Dante Alighieri
Description
Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet "Divine" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.
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