The Divine Comedy.: Translated and Introduced by Kenneth Mackenzie. With one hundred and eleven engravings by John Flaxman.

London; The Folio Society; 1979.. First Folio society Edition; Roy. 4to; pp. xx, 555, (1); illustrated frontispiece, text illustrated with 110 engravings, notes, bound in original binding by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) using Scholco Dublina cloth blocked with a cosmological design by Charles Foster, housed in original card slipcase, spine with minor marks otherwise a very good copy. The Divine Comedy a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. Purgatorio is the second part of The Divine Comedy a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century.