The Divine Comedy I: Inferno
ISBN: 9780140448955 | 0140448950
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Penguin Classics
Pub. Date: 8/29/2006
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The most famous of the three canticles that comprise "The Divine Comedy, Inferno" describes Dantes descent in Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonizing torture, Dante encounters doomed souls that include the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicidal Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, Dante must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of allfor it is only by encountering Satan himself, in the ... MORE
Dante Alighieri (1265-û1321) wrote The Divine Comedy, it is believed, between 1308 and 1320.
Robin Kirkpatrick is a widely published Dante scholar. He is fellow of Robinson College and professor of Italian and English literature at Cambridge University.
Robin Kirkpatrick is a widely published Dante scholar. He is fellow of Robinson College and professor of Italian and English literature at Cambridge University.
