Hell: The Florentine: Cantica One by Dante Alighieri; Translated by Dorothy L. Sayers; Introduction by Dorothy L. Sayers
	List Price:   $13.00 Unit Price:   $10.40 You Save:   $2.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0140440062 ISBN-13:   9780140440065 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Series:   Divine Comedy Ser. Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   June 1950 Pages:   352 Format:   Paperback
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POETRY (POETIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)
Description/Notes
Dante (1265-1321) is the one of the greatest of Italian poets, and his Divine Comedy is the one of the finest Christian allegories. This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation 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. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the twenty-four circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life. In this first part of his Divine Comedy, Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind's search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment.