The Inferno (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

New Copy. Shows no wear. Clean, crisp, bright , tight and square. A very handsome edition. NOT Ex-Library. NOT Remainder. This is a NEW BOOK.

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Translated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work.

The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In the Inferno, Dante's protagonist - and his reader - is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous and horrific characters.

Product Info

ISBN: 1853267872

ISBN-13: 9781853267871

Publisher: Wordsworth Classics

Year: 1997

Type: New

Binding: Softcover

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