The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, ParadiseP.F. Collier, 1909 - 428 pages "'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation 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. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets. This Everyman's edition -- containing in one volume all three cantos, 'Inferno, ' 'Purgatorio, ' and 'Paradiso' -- includes an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth century series of illustrations." ***"An epic poem in which the poet describes his spiritual journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise -- guided first by the poet Virgil and then by his beloved Beatrice -- which results in a purification of his religious faith." |
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Other editions - View all
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Translated; Paradiso (Classic Reprint) Dante Alighieri No preview available - 2018 |
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise Dante Alighieri,Henry Francis Cary No preview available - 2017 |
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise Dante Alighieri,Henry Francis Cary No preview available - 2018 |
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Angels answer'd appear'd Arezzo ARGUMENT.-The aught beam Beatrice began behold beneath blessed Bologna Branca Doria breast Cacciaguida Canto Charles Martel Charles of Anjou Christ circle Corso Donati cried Dante descend divine dost doth E'en e'er earth erewhile eternal evil exclaim'd eyes Faenza Farinata degli Uberti feet fell fix'd flame Florence forthwith gaze Ghibelline grace Guido hath hear heard Heaven Hell hence holy King light living Lombardi look look'd Malebolge mark'd mortal mount moved ne'er o'er onward pass pass'd Pistoia Poet Purgatory Ravenna reach'd replied rest return'd rock round seem'd shade side sight smile song soon Sordello soul spake speak spirit star Statius steps stood stream sweet tell thee thence thine Thomas Aquinas thou hast thou mayst thou shalt thought torment truth turn'd twixt unto Virgil virtue visage voice whence wherefore wings words
Popular passages
Page 22 - Alas ! by what sweet thoughts, what fond desire Must they at length to that ill pass have reached!" Then turning, I to them my speech addressed, And thus began : " Francesca ! your sad fate Even to tears my grief and pity moves. But tell me ; in the time of your sweet sighs, By what, and how Love granted, that ye knew Your yet uncertain wishes ?" She replied : " No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when misery is at hand.
Page 255 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Page 255 - Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance ; they had the likeness of a man.
Page 406 - In that abyss Of radiance, clear and lofty, seem'd, methought, Three orbs of triple hue, dipt in one bound :* And, from another, one reflected seem'd, As rainbow is from rainbow: and the third Seem'd fire, breathed equally from both. O speech ! How feeble and how faint art thou, to give Conception birth.
Page 11 - Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.1 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Page 3 - In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, 5 Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death.
Page 11 - Here sighs, with lamentations and loud moans, Resounded through the air pierced by no star, That e'en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, With hands together smote that swell'd the sounds, Made up a tumult, that for ever whirls Round through that air with solid darkness stain'd, Like to the sand that in the whirlwind flies.
Page 218 - Enters Alagna; in his Vicar Christ Himself a captive, and his mockery Acted again. Lo! to his holy lip The vinegar and gall once more applied ; And he 'twixt living robbers doom'd to bleed. Lo ! the new Pilate, of whose cruelty Such violence cannot fill the measure up, With no decree to sanction, pushes on Into the temple1* his yet eager sails.
Page 67 - Thus me my guide address'd, And beckon'd him, that he should come to shore, Near to the stony causeway's utmost edge. Forthwith that image vile of Fraud appear'd. His head and upper part exposed on land, But laid not on the shore his bestial train.
Page 201 - Was wont to boast two suns,' whose several beams Cast light on either way, the world's and God's. One since hath quench'd the other; and the sword Is grafted on the crook; and, so conjoin'd, Each must perforce decline to worse, unawed By fear of other.