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Modern library of the world's best books volume 208
Galaxy book volume GB 65-67
100 greatest books ever written
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Galaxy book volume GB 65-67
100 greatest books ever written
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The historical and cultural significance of Dante Alighieri s masterpiece The Divine Comedy cannot be overstated. Dante s poetry takes the reader on a multi-layered journey, one through which he or she experiences this literary masters unique aesthetic and spiritual sensibilities. The Divine Comedy also presents the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of medieval Italian thought and its bearing on Western theology and culture. This lyrical...
2) The inferno
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This vigorous translation of the Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. The blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries.
3) Purgatory
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Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. We find the Poet, with his guide Virgil, ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory inhabited by those doing penance to expiate their sins on earth. There are the proud - forced to circle their terrace for eons bent double in humility, the slothful - running around crying out examples of zeal and sloth, while the lustful are purged by fire.
4) Paradise
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Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars through the heavenly spheres of Paradise. In this third and final part of the Divine Comedy, he encounters the just rulers and holy saints of the Church. The horrors of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory are left far behind. Ultimately, in Paradise, Dante is granted a vision of God's heavenly court-the angels, the Blessed Virgin and God Himself.
5) The paradiso
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"With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar of unmatched reputation and his wife, Jean, is an accomplished poet. Their verse translation with facing-page Italian combines maximum...
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"Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang's new translation of Purgatorio is the extraordinary continuation of her journey with Dante, which began with her transformative version of Inferno. In Purgatorio, still guided by the Roman poet Virgil, Dante emerges from the horrors of Hell to begin the climb up Mount Purgatory, a seven-terrace mountain with each level devoted to those atoning for one of the seven deadly sins. At the summit, we find the Terrestrial...
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Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
I cannot well repeat
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La "Divina Comedia" es la obra cumbre del poeta italiano Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), y fue completada en 1320, un año antes de su muerte. Es considerada por muchos como la primera gran obra italiana y responsable de estandarizar el idioma italiano.
También es reconocida como una joya de la literatura universal. La "Divina Comedia" narra la historia del propio autor en su viaje a través del infierno, el purgatorio y el paraíso, en búsqueda de...
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Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure or antiquated verbiage with the language of Modern English. This translation could easily be read and understood by today's reader.
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Divine Comedy volume 1
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What makes someone kill? The age-old question of nature (genetics) versus nurture (conditioning) is still open to debate. What is not open for debate is Brandon's need to kill. But it isn't for revenge or fame or money...it's for penance. He may have had the perfect life of being a model by day and partier by night but underneath he is a tormented, murderous soul. And as the investigating detectives along with the FBI find out, this is a motive enough...
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Divine Comedy volume 2
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The race is on to stop Brandon's murderous quest for earning penance. As the circle of the detectives and FBI closes in, Brandon is compelled to continue his bloody orgy, regardless of the consequences. The exciting conclusion to the two-part Divine Comedy story.
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Divine Comedy volume 1
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Brandon has a seemingly perfect life. Model by day and indulging in all the parties at night. But under the surface, Brandon hides his terrible past...one that he believes he has paid insufficient penance. But as he sees it there is a way out of this predicament and that means he is coming for you, sinners. Part one of two.
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