![]() ![]() Reading, the next two volumes thrill and upon reading them one can enjoy INFERNO to the fullest.Iīelieve that the best translation of INFERNO to get is that of Allen Mandelbaum, which is published While INFERNO may occasionally lack excitement on the first EliotĬalled "Mounting the saint's stair". Dante wrote not just a simple story of quasi-science fiction,īut a moving allegory of the soul moving from perdition to salvation, the act which the poet T.S. ![]() However, this first volume has a solid role in theĪllegorical significance of the Comedy. INFERNO is a slow beginning, most of the grace and beauty of the Comedy lies in the subsequent The dead are placed into Hell not by an unjust God, but by their own decisions and actions. Nowhere, however, does anything seem wrong. Tried to fortell the future can only see their past). Thus, the lustful are caught upĮternally in a whirlwind, and astrologers and magicians have their heads reversed (so those who Here the dead receive different punishments based on their sins. Spiritual malaise.Dante's Hell differs from the traditional view of everyone together amongst flames. Has sent him to lead Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and finally Heaven to bring him out of his The Roman poet Virgil (best known for his AENEID) appears and tells him that Heaven When day breaks, three savage animals bar Way" (around 35 years old) and lost in a forest at night. In INFERNO, the first volume, the narrator finds himself "half of our life's Written in early Italian and rhymed in terza rima, its 100 cantos display impressive allegory and use > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > European #1373 inBooks > Literature & Fiction > Classicsĭante Alighieri's three part epic The Divine Comedy ranks highly among the literature of the world. ![]() Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)Īverage Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 starsSee all reviews(65 customer reviews)īest Sellers Rank: #41,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #93 inBooks > Literature & Fiction Publisher: Bantam Classics Bantam Classic Ed edition (January 1, 1982) Vivid images-the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic-are rendered with marvelousĬlarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age. In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's ![]()
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