Dante Alighieri is the great poet of the late Middle Ages, who paved the way for all European cultures into modern literature; creator of the modern Italian language. He dedicated his main work - the unsurpassed, majestic, truly divine “Comedy” to the states of human souls in the terrible circles of Hell, on the difficult ledges of Purgatory, in the harmonious skies of Paradise.
The reader of The Divine Comedy follows Dante, contemplating all the models of human life and posthumous fate: some characters are forever mired in sin, others are caught by the author at a transitional stage to virtue, others are given the path to perfection. The ingenious structure of the “Divine Comedy” correlates with the airy spheres of the Rose of Paradise, where the poet is destined to meet with Beatrice, whom he idolizes. This volume also includes “New Life,” written in verse and prose, which can be considered one of the first European autobiographical novels of the 13th century.
Author: Alighieri Dante
Translation: Mikhail Lozinsky, Abram Efros
Pages: 768 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 218x150x38 mm
Series: Foreign literature. Big books
