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Inferno: The Divine Comedy I

Autor Dante Editat de Robin Kirkpatrick
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2006
Infernois the first part of Dante's epic poemThe Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. This Penguin Classics edition is translated and edited with an introduction and notes by Robin Kirkpatrick.

Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide,Infernodepicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Led by leering demons, the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all. Portraying a huge diversity of characters culminating in a horrific vision of Satan, theInfernobroke new ground in the vigour of its language and storytelling. It has had a particular influence on Modernist writers and their successors throughout the world.

Printed in English with facing pages in Dante's Italian, this edition offers commentaries and notes on each canto by Robert Kirkpatrick.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), scion of a Florentine family, mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work isLa Vita Nuova(1292) an exercise in sonnet form constructed as a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. It is believed thatThe Divine Comedy- comprised of three canticles,Inferno,Purgatorio, andParadiso- was written between 1308 and 1320.

If you enjoyed theInfernoyou might like Giovanni Boccaccio'sDecameron, also available in Penguin Classics.

'Kirkpatrick brings to this English Dante both his perfect knowledge of the Italian and an extraordinarily good ear in his own language'
Professor Piero Boitani, University of Rome
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ISBN-13: 9780140448955
ISBN-10: 0140448950
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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.


Robin Kirkpatrick is a poet and widely-published Dante scholar. He has taught courses on Dante's Divine Comedy in Hong Kong, Dublin, and Cambridge where is Fellow of Robinson College and Professor of Italian and English Literatures.

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This timeless Christian allegory has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery fo its own identity. In the Inferno, the first of the Comedy's three parts, Dante is conducted by the spirit of the classical poet Virgil through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his arduous journey toward God.

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