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The Divine Comedy, Part 1: Hell (Penguin Classics)
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The Divine Comedy, Part 1: Hell (Penguin Classics) Trade paperback - 1950

by Dante Alighieri

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Penguin Classics, June 1950. Trade Paperback . Used Good/yes .
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  • Title The Divine Comedy, Part 1: Hell (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Dante Alighieri
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date June 1950
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 224977
  • ISBN 9780140440065 / 0140440062
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.39 x 4.46 x 0.62 in (21.31 x 11.33 x 1.57 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1220
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Library of Congress subjects Dante Alighieri, Hell - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00009323
  • Dewey Decimal Code 851.1

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From the publisher

Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. Considered Italy's greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is La Vita Nuova (1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. Married to Gemma Donatic, Dante's political activism resulted in his being exiled from Florence to eventually settle in Ravenna. It is believed that The Divine Comedy—comprised of three canticles, The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso—was written between 1308 and 1320. Dante Alighieri died in 1321.

First line

THE STORY. Dante finds that he has strayed from the right road and is lost in a Dark Wood.

From the rear cover

This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

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About the author

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He was married when he was around twenty to Gemma Donati and had four children. 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.

Dorothy L. Sayers wrote novels, poetry, and translated Dante for Penguin Classics. She died in 1957.

Barbara Reynolds was Lecturer in Italian at Cambridge University and subsequently Reader in Italian Studies at Nottingham, and Honorary Reader at Warwick. She has written books, both on Italian authors and on Dorothy L. Sayers.

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