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1) The inferno
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Lexile measure
1270L
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English
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Publisher's description: Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically...
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Vintage classics
Oxford world's classics
Bollingen volume 80
Everyman's library volume 183
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Oxford world's classics
Bollingen volume 80
Everyman's library volume 183
More Series...
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
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Comprised of three books - "Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso" - "Dante's Divine Comedy" follows Dante Alighieri's epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, and heaven. "Divine Comedy" began as a project in 1308 and ended in 1320, the year before Dante's death. Told in first person, Dante follows the poet Virgil through the rings of hell and purgatory. "The Divine Comedy" is a highly allegorical text and...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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"Dante imagines himself as a lost pilgrim who is taken on a guided pilgrimage through the three realms of the dead: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. On his travels, he is given the challenge of exploring the darkest recesses of the human soul in an effort to understand the root of evil, sin, and ultimately, forgiveness." -- Book jacket
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Great books of the Western world volume 19
Pub. Date
c199o.
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English
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Three books in one volume. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. "Troilus and Criseyde" & "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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English
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Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, 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 sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
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Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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In a brilliantly constructed narrative of his imaginary guided pilgrimage through the three realms of the Christian afterlife- hell, purgatory, and heaven- Dante accomplished a literary task of astonishing complexity. Learn why he wrote them, and how each part of the poem is connected to what has come before.
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