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Divine Comedy
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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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The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri (Author)The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination....
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Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri (Author)This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that...
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Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri (Author)This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy,...
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Dante Alighieri's epic tale of one man's journey into the afterlife is considered Italy's finest literary export.
Characters edit
- Dante Alighieri: The man who travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
- Beatrice: Dante's lover. She as well wants to help Dante in his journey through the afterlife. She is the daughter of Folco Portinari.
- Boniface Viii: He is Dante's enemy.
- Lucia: Beatrice calls this angel/vision to come and give faith to Dante. She is the symbol of what enlights the mind.
- Filippo Argenti: one of the richest people from Florence in Dante's time.
- Virgil: A poet that was chosen from Limbo to guide Dante through the Inferno and Purgatorio.
- Aeneas: He is the father of Italy.
- Ciacco: he was punished for what he did in his life; Dante meets him in the Inferno.
- Pluto: here, he is the god of richness, representing the need for fortune.
- Flegva: He wants to restrain Dante and keep him in a specific level of the afterlife.
- Farinata degli Uberti: here, he gets praised by Dante, his greatest enemy.
- Pier della Vigna: he was a chancellor at Frederick II court, but now he became a tree because he committed suicide.
- Capaneu: one of the seven kings that attacked Troy/Teba.
- Minos: The judge of Hell. Sits at the end of Limbo, judging souls according to their sins.
- Dante: A timid man who faces a journey through the afterlife that will form his character and ultimatley effect the way he lives life forever.
- Zeus: the god of thunder and lightning.
- Guido del Duca: Add a description of this character.
- Charlemagne
- Nimrod
- Bernard
- Statius
- Juno
- Paul
- Barbariccia
- Charon
- Forese
- Joshua
- Philip Augustus
- Virgilius
- Geryon
- Moses
- Malebolge
- Jove
- Anchises
- Thomas
- Marcia
- Emperor
- Ser Brunetto
- Sordello
- Rachel
- Judas
- Frederick Tignoso
- Currado Malaspina
- Phlegyas
- Cocytus
- Julius Caesar
- Francis
- Jason
- Charles
- Jacopo Rusticucci
- Hercules
- Virgin Mary
- Adam
- Plato
- Twixt Feltro
- Pope
- Drew
- Gherardo
- Albert
- Piccarda
- Lavinia
- Michael Scott
- John
- Marco
- Countess Matilda
- Attila
- Mark Luni
- Count Anselmo da Capraia
- Lucan
- William
- Elias
- Ulysses
- Brutus
- Antaeus
- Daniel
- Cerberus
- Nino
- Tiraboschi
- Aristotle
- Rodolph
- Raymond Berenger
- Ghino di Tacco
- Gryphon
- Landino
- Gaia
- Marquis Marcello Malaspina
- Louis XVI
- Hugh Capet
- Pinamonte Buonacossi
- Philip
- Count Ugolino de ' Gherardeschi
- Amphiaraus
- Alessandro da Romena
- Mantuan
- Venturi
- Henault
- Ruggieri degli Ubaldini
- Costanza
- Folco
- James II of Arragon
- Pallas
- Tiresias
- Branca Doria
- Harry
- Phaeton
- Henry Vl
- Guittone
- Santa Zita
- Manto
- Leda
- Philip IV
- Ptolemy
- Winceslaus
- Vellutello
- Richard
- Guinicelli
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“"<...> el que ve una necesidad, y aguarda que le supliquen, ya se prepara malignamente a rehusar todo socorro."”
Virgilio, "El Purgatorio", Canto 17 -
“"¡Oh buen Apolo! Haz de mí para este último trabajo un vaso lleno de tu valor, tal como lo exiges para conceder tu laurel amado; pues si hasta aquí tuve bastante con una cima del Parnaso, ahora necesito las dos para entrar en el resto de mi carrera. Entra en mi seno, e inspírame el aliento de que estabas poseído cuando sacaste los miembros de Marsias fuera de su piel."”
Dante, "El Paraíso", Canto 1
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First Sentence edit
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction: The Method of The Divine Comedy
The Inferno
The Purgatorio
The Paradiso
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Divine Comedy. (standard series)
This is book 10 of 93 in Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List. (authoritative list)
This book is in The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. (community list)
This book is in Books That Changed Man's Thinking (Heron). (publisher edition list)
This is book 37 of 95 in The Art of Manliness' Essential Man’s Library. (authoritative list)
This book is in 100 Fantabulous Book Challenge. (community list)
This is book 30 of 96 in Wikipedia's 100 most influential books ever written. (authoritative list)
This is book 2 of 548 in University of Asia and the Pacific. (community list)
This is book 2 of 475 in Catholic Philosophy. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Dante Alighieri (Author)
Other Contributors:
- C. H. Sisson (Author)
- David H. Higgins
- Lawrence Grant (Translator) - Translator for the 1948 edition published by Pantheon Books.
- Gustave Doré (Illustrator) - Illustrator for the 1948 edition published by Pantheon Books.
First Edition edit
Original Language: Italian
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Country: Italy
Publication Date: 1321
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Page Count: 752
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Country: Italy
Publication Date: 1321
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Page Count: 752
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- Dewey: 851.15
Subjects edit
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Literature & Fiction › Poetry
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Inspirational & Religious
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Movements & Periods › Renaissance
- Books › History › Europe › Italy › Renaissance
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Catholicism › Roman Catholicism
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Articles on Dante Alighieri on NYT
- Project Gutenberg: Free e-book
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