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The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell: 001 (Divine Comedy)

The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell: 001 (Divine Comedy)

by Dante Alighieri (Author)

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Synopsis

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life. In this first part of his "Divine Comedy", Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind's search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 27 Jan 2005
ISBN 10: 0140440062
ISBN 13: 9780140440065

Media Reviews
The English Dante of choice. -Hugh Kenner

Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths. -Robert Fagles, Princeton University

A marvel of fidelity to the original, of sobriety, and truly, of inspired poetry. -Henri Peyre, Yale University

Author Bio
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He was married when he was around twenty to Gemma Donati and had four children. He met Beatrice, who was to be his muse, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction in philosophy and theology, and wrote La Vita Nuova. He worked on the Divine Comedy from 1308 until near the time of his death in Ravenna in 1321. Dorothy L. Sayers wrote novels, poetry, and translated Dante for the Penguin Classics. She died in 1957. Barbara Reynolds was Lecturer in Italian at Cambridge University and subsequently Reader in Italian Studies at Nottingham, and Honorary Reader at Warwick. She has written books, both on Italian authors and on Dorothy L. Sayers.