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9780460875226: The Divine Comedy: The Vision of Dante
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0460875221 ISBN 13 : 9780460875226
Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1994

Synopsis

This edition features all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" - with explanatory notes on each canto. It includes Botticelli's illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", drawn in the 1480s.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Translated by H. F. Cary, this Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive 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 gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work.

The Comedy tells of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman through the three realms of the Christian afterlife: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. He presents a vision of the afterlife which is strikingly original in its conception, with a complex architecture and a coherent structure. On this journey Dante's protagonist - and his reader - meet characters who are variously noble, grotesque, beguiling, fearful, ridiculous, admirable, horrific and tender, and through them he is shown the consequences of sin, repentance and virtue, as he learns to avoid Hell and, through cleansing in Purgatory, to taste the joys of Heaven.

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Éditeur
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0460875221
ISBN 13 
9780460875226
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
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Personne responsable
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