The Inferno (Paperback)

Author: Henry Wadsworth/ Dante Alighieri/ Longfellow LongfellowTranslator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780486442884
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publish Date: 8/26/2005
Buy.com Sku: 31043290
Item#: R2WC9G
Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.25L x 0.5T
Pages: 272
 
The first of the 3 canticles in "La divina commedia "(The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures -- each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

 
 
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Dante Alighieri read widely as a young man and became involved in the public affairs of Florence. In struggles over the Florentine government, Dante found himself on the losing side and as a result he was exiled in 1302. He lived in various places in northern Italy for the next several years and finally settled in Ravenna. Dante lived out his years there, esteemed as a great man of letters.

 
 
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

  mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,

  che la diritta via era smarrita.

Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura4

  esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte

  che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Tant' è amara che poco è più morte;7

  ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai,

  dirò de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte.

Io non so ben ridir com' i' v'intrai,10

  tant' era pien di sonno a quel punto

  che la verace via abbandonai.

Ma poi ch'i' fui al piè d'un colle giunto,13

  là dove terminava quella valle

  che m'avea di paura il cor compunto,

guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle16

  vestite già de' raggi del pianeta

  che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.

Allor fu la paura un poco que
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