DANTE's INFERNO ~ WITH MAP OF HELL ~ ILLUSTRATIONS BY DORE! Dante Alighieri

Description: SHIPPING IN COVID TIMES: Please note that at this time, the post office is VERY VERY slow and if you need this by a specific time, you'll need to select Priority Mail or it may take a couple weeks or longer to get there. I know it's more expensive, but it's the only way to insure a quick delivery... FEATURES A MAP OF HELL AND ILLUSTRATIONS by GUSTAV DORE! THE INFERNO by Dante Alighieri with Illustrations by Gustave Dore! INDUSTRY REVIEW ~ "For all these reasons, the poem, for certain brave linguistic souls, provides an irresistible challenge. And among the new versions of "Inferno," that of the Hollanders is probably the most finely accomplished and may well prove the most enduring." ~ Los Angeles Times Book Review - R. W. B. Lewis (04/29/2001) FROM THE PUBLISHER: THE INFERNO remains literature’s most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simple—and now legendary—tercet: Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark For the straightforward pathway had been lost. With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Inferno—one of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval world—the silver-tongued Ulysses, lustful Francesca da Rimini, the heretical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and notorious figures. This edition of the Inferno revives the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dante’s literary genius to a broad American audience. “Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet,” wrote William Dean Howells of Longfellow’s Dante, “and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan.” Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dante’s Inferno is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest works of Homer and Shakespeare. This edition features a map of Hell and illustrations by Gustave Doré shown throughout this listing! In many respects, Dante’s Inferno is not an unfamiliar place. Its most interesting inhabitants are not classical monsters, mythological figures, or heroes but instead are contemporary Italians, figures from all over the peninsula. It is an all too human world that we all immediately recognize as the one in which we live. Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that Hell is other people. Dante would have said: “We have met the damned, and they are we.” ~ from the Introduction by Peter Bondanella. Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and a past President of the American Association for Italian Studies, Peter Bondanella has published a number of translations of Italian classics (Boccaccio, Cellini, Machiavelli, Vasari), books on Italian Renaissance literature (Machiavelli, Guicciardini) and Italian cinema (Fellini, Rossellini), and a dictionary of Italian literature. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265. Much of what we know of Dante’s earliest years comes to us from La Vita Nuova (The New Life, completed around 1293), in which he recounts his idealized love for Beatrice Portinari. Beatrice died in 1290 but remained Dante’s idealized love and muse throughout his life. She figures largely in La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), which Dante probably began around 1308 during his extensive travels throughout Italy. Dante Alighieri is considered to be one of the world’s greatest poets. In the words of the twentieth-century poet T. S. Eliot, “Dante and Shakespeare, divide the world between them. There is no third.” A very nice hardcover book with original dustjacket, now in Brodart. Bound in cream colored cloth, there is one small ding on the outer edge hidden by the dust jacket, but still there. All pages crisp and bright, unmarked and clean. A GREAT looking used book! Enjoy! This is part of a modest collection of religious, inspirational and philosophy books I am selling. Should you buy 3 or more from this collection, I'll ship them all, free of postage by media mail anywhere in the USA. 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