The Inferno, Volume 20

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Race Point Publishing, 15/09/2015 - 312 páginas

Journey into Dante's nine circles of hell in the epic poem, Inferno.

The Divine Comedy, written in the early fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri, continues to be essential reading for lovers of literature.

Dante's The Inferno is the first part of his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. In this epic poem, Dante is led by the poet Virgil into the nine circles of Hell--limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery--culminating in a meeting with Satan himself. Along the way, he meets a number of interesting figures.

This edition uses the classic translation by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).

Complete and unabridged, this elegantly designed, clothbound edition features an elastic closure and a new introduction by John Lotherington.

 

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CANTO I
5
CANTO II
16
CANTO III
24
CANTO IV
32
CANTO V
41
CANTO VI
52
CANTO VII
60
CANTO VIII
68
CANTO XX
159
CANTO XXI
164
CANTO XXII
172
CANTO XXIII
179
CANTO XXIV
190
CANTO XXV
197
CANTO XXVI
204
CANTO XXVII
211

CANTO IX
77
CANTO X
84
CANTO XI
92
CANTO XII
98
CANTO XIII
107
CANTO XIV
116
CANTO XV
123
CANTO XVI
130
CANTO XVII
135
CANTO XVIII
143
CANTO XIX
151
CANTO XXVIII
217
CANTO XXIX
226
CANTO XXX
235
CANTO XXXI
243
CANTO XXXII
251
CANTO XXXIII
260
CANTO XXXIV
271
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DANTE ALIGHIERI
281
FURTHER READING
295
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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. John Lotherington has written widely on Renaissance literature and history, including co-authored surveys of sixteenth-century Europe, Years of Renewal, and sixteenth-century England, The Tudor Years. He is at present a Program Director at the Salzburg Global Seminar.

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