The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio (2 v.)
The third volume of Dante's Divine Comedy To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for ...
A collected work of Dante's Divine Comedy where the main protagonist goes through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven describing what he sees and discovers in the three realms of the afterlife.
His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian ...
The medieval classic that takes readers on a guided tour of the afterlife and on a spiritual journey toward God.
Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse". The work was originally simply titled Comedia and the word Divina was added by Giovanni Boccaccio.
The third and final section of Dante's Divine Comedy. “Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Paradise In this volume, Dante presents a vision of Paradise relying on ...
This translation of Dante's Inferno aims to preserve Dante's natural style while capturing the movement of the original Italian verse. The blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the...
The Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the ...
The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio