The Inferno

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... ARGUMENT. The Poets traverse the City of Dis. Dante converses with Farinata degli Uberti, the Ghibelline chief; also with Cavalcante Cavalcanti, a Florentine of the Guelf party, whose son, Guido, was his friend. Thus while we paced along a narrow way Between the land's wall and the torturing fires, My Master first, and I close following him, 'Virtue supreme, who thro' the unhallow'd spheres Leadest me as thou wiliest, ' I began; 5 'Speak to me, and my longing wish fulfil. The spirits couch'd within the sepulchres--Can they be seen? For I perceive that all The lids are raised, and no one keepeth watch.' And he replied; 'They all will be fast shut v When from Jehoshaphat their inmates shall Return revested with the bodies which They left above.1 On this side lie interr'd, With Epicurus and his followers, all Who with the body make the soul to die. 15 Touching the question which thou askest me, Within here thou shalt soon be satisfied: So shall that wish which thou unfoldest not.' Whence I replied; 'I do not keep conceal'd My thought from thee, kind Guide, save that I may 20 Speak little, as thou oft hast warned me.' 'Tuscan, who thro' the fiery city thus Rovest alive such sweet speech uttering, 0 stay thy course, and rest awhile with us. That voice of thine declareth thee to be 25 A native of that noble land wherein 1 wrought perhaps with a too troublous hand.' Suddenly from among the sepulchres Issued this utterance, whereat I clung In fear somewhat more closely to my Guide; 30 Who said to me; 'Turn thee: what doest thou 1 See! see! where Farinata stands upright: From the waist upward thou may'st him behold.' 1 That is, after the day of judgment. 'I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will..

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Born Dante Alighieri in the spring of 1265 in Florence, Italy, he was known familiarly as Dante. His family was noble, but not wealthy, and Dante received the education accorded to gentlemen, studying poetry, philosophy, and theology. His first major work was Il Vita Nuova, The New Life. This brief collection of 31 poems, held together by a narrative sequence, celebrates the virtue and honor of Beatrice, Dante's ideal of beauty and purity. Beatrice was modeled after Bice di Folco Portinari, a beautiful woman Dante had met when he was nine years old and had worshipped from afar in spite of his own arranged marriage to Gemma Donati. Il Vita Nuova has a secure place in literary history: its vernacular language and mix of poetry with prose were new; and it serves as an introduction to Dante's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, in which Beatrice figures prominently. The Divine Comedy is Dante's vision of the afterlife, broken into a trilogy of the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante is given a guided tour of hell and purgatory by Virgil, the pagan Roman poet whom Dante greatly admired and imitated, and of heaven by Beatrice. The Inferno shows the souls who have been condemned to eternal torment, and included here are not only mythical and historical evil-doers, but Dante's enemies. The Purgatory reveals how souls who are not irreversibly sinful learn to be good through a spiritual purification. And The Paradise depicts further development of the just as they approach God. The Divine Comedy has been influential from Dante's day into modern times. The poem has endured not just because of its beauty and significance, but also because of its richness and piety as well as its occasionally humorous and vulgar treatment of the afterlife. In addition to his writing, Dante was active in politics. In 1302, after two years as a priore, or governor of Florence, he was exiled because of his support for the white guelfi, a moderate political party of which he was a member. After extensive travels, he stayed in Ravenna in 1319, completing The Divine Comedy there, until his death in 1321.

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