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Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Irish Classics Ser.
This convenient single-volume edition contains all three parts of Dante's 14th-century poem . Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.It is an acclaimed translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Combining classical and Christian history as well as medieval politics and religion, this trilogy of ...Show more
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Through me you go to the grief-wracked city. Through me to everlasting pain you go . . . ' Depicting one man's horrifying journey into the depths of Hell, Inferno, the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, is a soaring spiritual epic that continues to echo through the centuries with its moving portrayal ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in whi ...Show more
La Vita Nuova: Love Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Dante Alighieri's book of poetry and prose about love, and his first major work.Set in thirteenth century Florence, Dante describes his love for Beatrice through poems, sonnets and prose in La Vita Nuova (The New Life). This edition is the English translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first published i ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The Divine Comedy - 700th Anniversary Edition by Dante Alighieri; tranlated by J.G. Nichols
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and ...Show more
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners w ...Show more
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature.An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally ...Show more
The Divine Comedy & Paradise by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Having climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God guided by his beloved, Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in understanding, until he finally experiences divine love in God's presence.