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This startling new translation of Dante''s Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland''s most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante''s epic, Carson''s virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thing—a translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney''s Beowulf and Ted Hughes''s Tales from Ovid, Ciaran Carson''s Inferno is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature.

The poem discusses "the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward",[4] and describes Dante''s travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.

The second part of Dante''s Divine Comedy, following the Inferno, and preceding the Paradiso. The poem was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegory telling of the climb of Dante up the Mount of Purgatory, guided by the Roman poet Virgil, except for the last four cantos at which point Beatrice takes over as Dante''s guide. Purgatory in the poem is depicted as a mountain in the Southern Hemisphere, consisting of a bottom section (Ante-Purgatory), seven levels of suffering and spiritual growth (associated with the seven deadly sins), and finally the Earthly Paradise at the top. Allegorically, the Purgatorio represents the penitent Christian life. In describing the climb Dante discusses the nature of sin, examples of vice and virtue, as well as moral issues in politics and in the Church. The poem outlines a theory that all sins arise from love - either perverted love directed towards others'' harm, or deficient love, or the disordered or excessive love of good things.

A Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313. The great Italian poet turns his hand to political thought and defends the reign of a single monarch ruling over a universal empire. He believed that peace was only achievable when a single monarch replaced divisive and squabbling princes and kings.

IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e''en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death.

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, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet''s vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary.

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - The Inferno. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - The Inferno in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - The Inferno: Look inside the book: Boccaccio, his earliest biographer, swells out his Life, as the earlier commentators on the Comedy do their notes, with what are plainly but legendary amplifications of hints supplied by Dante''s own words; while more recent and critical writers succeed with infinite pains in little beyond establishing, each to his own satisfaction, what was the order of publication of the poet''s works, where he may have travelled to, and when and for how long a time he may have had this or that great lord for a patron. ...With the Pope for overlord they would at least have a master who was an Italian, and one who, his title being imperfect, would in his own interest be led to treat them with indulgence; while, in the permanent triumph of the Emperor, Italy must have become subject and tributary to Germany, and would have seen new estates carved out of her fertile soil for members of the German garrison. About Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri, the Author: An early outside indication that the poem was underway is a notice by Francesco da Barberino, tucked into his Documenti d''Amore (Lessons of Love), written probably in 1314 or early 1315; speaking of Virgil, Francesco notes in appreciative words that Dante followed the Roman classic in a poem called ''Comedy'' and that the setting of this poem (or part of it) was the underworld; i.e., hell. ...Dante''s other works include Convivio (''The Banquet''), a collection of his longest poems with an (unfinished) allegorical commentary; Monarchia, a summary treatise of political philosophy in Latin which was condemned and burned after Dante''s death by the Papal Legate Bertrando del Poggetto, which argues for the necessity of a universal or global monarchy in order to establish universal peace in this life, and this monarchy''s relationship to the Roman Catholic Church as guide to eternal peace; De vulgari eloquentia (''On the Eloquence of Vernacular''), on vernacular literature, partly inspired by the Razos de trobar of Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun; and, La Vita Nuova (''The New Life''), the story of his love for Beatrice Portinari, who also served as the ultimate symbol of salvation in the Comedy.

The Divine Comedy is a classic Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, which laid the foundations for the art of the Renaissance. It was completed a year before Dante''s death in 1321. It is widely considered the most critical work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. Constitutionally, it consists of three parts Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Here, we present the last part of the trilogy: Paradise.