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Best Selling Books by Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri is the author of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1982), The Vita Nuova (2015), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri (2015), Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory (2019), The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1 (2016).
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
release date: Aug 31, 2015
The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri
release date: Nov 19, 2015
Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Purgatory
release date: Dec 16, 2019
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1
release date: May 17, 2016
The Paradise of Dante Alighieri
release date: Mar 01, 2014
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell
release date: Feb 04, 2018
release date: Jul 01, 2008
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volumes 1-3
release date: Oct 11, 2018
La Divina Commedia Di Dante Alighieri - Scholar's Choice Edition
release date: Feb 18, 2015
release date: Oct 26, 2022
The Banquet of Dante Alighieri
release date: Mar 01, 2014
Dante Alighieri's Göttliche Comödie
release date: Feb 22, 2019
The New Life la Vita Nuova of Dante Alighieri
release date: Jan 01, 1999
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri; - Scholar's Choice Edition
release date: Feb 19, 2015
The Vision, Or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri
Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno
release date: May 03, 2013
The Banquet Il Convito of Dante Alighieri
release date: Mar 01, 2014
Dante Allighieri's Göttliche Komödie
release date: Mar 03, 2019
The First Canticle, Inferno, of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Scholar's Choice Edition
release date: Feb 17, 2015
La Comedia Di Dante Alighieri
release date: Oct 19, 2018
The de Monarchia of Dante Alighieri
release date: Feb 05, 2018
release date: May 19, 2016
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Inferno by Dante Alighieri
release date: Nov 25, 2017
The Divine Comedy (illustrated)
release date: Nov 16, 2020
In this three-part epic poem, Dante Alighieri takes his readers on a pilgrimage to Heaven via journeys first through Hell and Purgatory. It is a spiritual journey expounding the evils of sin through the first-person narration of the aptly named main character, Dante the Pilgrim. The title, The Divine Comedy, is not an implication that the poem is humorous in nature. Rather, the poem is a "comedy" in that it is of the classical style that existed in partnership with tragedy. Traditional tragedies had plotlines that began with an optimistic, or positive, event but ended in sadness, death, or a downtrodden existence. Comedy, considered a base genre, flowed in the opposite direction with tragedy, or at least unhappiness, reaching a happy or optimistic culmination.Pilgrim''s journey through the realms of the dead lasts from the eve of Good Friday to the Wednesday following Easter in the year 1300. The Roman poet Virgil is Pilgrim''s guide through Hell and Purgatory. Beatrice, who represents Dante''s ideal woman, leads passage through Heaven. Given its religious significance, it is not surprising that The Divine Comedy is structured as a trinity. The three aforementioned sections in literary terms are known as canticas and total 14,233 lines. Each cantica is made up of thirty-three cantos, once again giving significance to the number "three." The poem has an introduction, which is considered part of the first cantica, thus giving the work a total of one hundred cantos.The opening section of the poem, Inferno, finds Dante lost in sin, symbolically depicted as a dark wood. He is attacked by a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf and cannot find a way out to safety, or in the religious context of the poem, salvation. This situation is represented by a mountain obscuring the sun. He is ultimately rescued by Virgil who guides them through the underworld. Every sin in Inferno has a punishment that symbolically, even ironically, levels justice. As an example, sinful seers or fortune-tellers are destined to walk with their heads attached facing backward so as to be unable to do what they did in life: see what is yet to come. The three animals that attack Dante symbolize the sins of being self-indulgent, violent, and malicious. Hell is structured as nine circles into which sinners are classified. Those suffering from incontinence or lack of restraint fall into circles one through five. Pride or violence make up circles six and seven. Fraud and malice are the sins connected to circles eight and nine. Each of the circles signifies deeper and deeper evil ending in the earth''s core, the realm of Satan. The punishments for the sins of each circle vary.After surviving the journey through Hell, Virgil leads Dante to Purgatory, a mountain on the far side of the world that was formed upon Hell''s creation. The mountain has seven terraces representing the seven deadly sins. In the realm of Purgatory, sins are classified more based on one''s motives than on one''s actions. Theologically, there is a Christian basis although Dante does not rely exclusively on the Bible. Love is a significant theme in The Divine Comedy. Love becomes sinful when driven by pride, envy, or wrath. It is also sinful when it is sloth or weak, or too strong via lust, gluttony, or greed. An additional region of Purgatory is the Ante-Purgatory home of those excommunicated from the church and those who died who may have been repentant but had not received rites. Purgatory is an allegory for the Christian life. Souls are escorted there by angels with the hope that they might attain divine grace. The structure of Purgatory from a scientific perspective shows a medieval knowledge of the Earth as a sphere...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Inferno
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
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