Believe it or not , I've come by way of Hell . ... He wants me to see what goes on up there in a way that's never been done before . ... first thought of it back when I was in Hell , and lately it's been bugging me again .
In 1317 Dante took his two sons and his daughter Beatrice to live in Ravenna , where dark pines bordered the nearby Adriatic Sea . This city was famous for brilliant Christian mosaics almost 1000 years old . Dante gave lectures and ...
This edition is illustrated with astonishing artworks, from Hieronymus Bosch's depictions of a surreal, hellish landscapes and other Renaissance visions of the Last Judgement, to Gustave Doré's intricate engravings of the pilgrim's ...
In the work's three parts (Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise), Dante chronicles his travels throughthe afterlife, cataloging a multitude of sinners and saints-many of them real people to whom Dante tellingly assigned either horrible ...
A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
In this narrative retelling and guide, from the gates of hell, up the mountain of purgatory, to the empyrean of paradise, Mark Vernon offers a vivid introduction and interpretation of a book that, 700 years on, continues to open minds and ...
With this volume, Kathryn Lindskoog completes her three-volume edition of Dante's DIVINE COMEDY.
"Written between 1308 and his death in 1321, this ... epic poem is widely considered to be the last great work of medieval literature and the first great work of the Renaissance - straddling two worlds on the brink of change... \Its] ...
For here are issues of dominance and power and Dante , whatever his powerlessness in the actual social realm of exile , has all the power his poem — including the power of rhetoric to convince , to move , to terrify .
This is a beautiful collector's edition of this great literary classic. The accessible text design and illustrations makes it very appealing.
If Dante's Divine Comedy speaks to our present condition, it is because it tells the story of Everyman who sets out in search of salvation in this world. Dante composed his great poem in the spoken Italian of his time.
This edition of the complete Divine comedy in English features Longfellow's translation and engravings by Gustave Doré.