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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 851.1 EAN: 9780486442884 ISBN: 0486442888 Label: Dover Publications Manufacturer: Dover Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: August 01, 2005 Publisher: Dover Publications Studio: Dover Publications Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The first of the 3 canticles in La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures — each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Average Rating:
 Rating: - "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!""Midway life's journey I was made aware/that I had strayed into a dark forest..." Those eerie words open the first cantica of Dante Alighieri's "Inferno," the most famous part of the legendary Divina Comedia. But the stuff going on here is anything but divine, as Dante explores the metaphorical and supernatural horrors of the inferno. The date is Good Friday of the year 1300, and Dante is lost in a creepy dark forest, being assaulted by a trio of beasts who symbolize his own sins. But ... Read More 
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