Alighieri Dante - The Divine Comedy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Translated by H. F. Cary With an 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.
Title: The Divine Comedy
Author(s): Alighieri Dante
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Barcode: 9781840221664
Pages: 592 Pages
Publication Date: 2/5/2009
Series: Classics of World Literature
(Editor: Griffith, Tom)
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets