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The Comedy of Dante Alighieri

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140440065

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Comedy of Dante Alighieri

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Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante’s life. In this first part of his Divine Comedy, Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind’s search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140440065

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £8.99

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He met Beatrice, who was to be his muse, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction in philosophy and theology, and wrote La Vita Nuova. He worked on the Divine Comedy from 1308 until near the time of his death in Ravenna in 1321.

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