The Inferno

Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.

The first part of Dante‘s Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan. One of the few literary works that has enjoyed a fame both immediate and enduring, The Inferno remains powerful after seven centuries. It confronts the most universal values–good and evil, free will and predestination–while remaining intensely personal and ferociously political, for it was born out of the anguish of a man who saw human life blighted by the injustice and corruption of his times.

Translated by John Ciardi
With an Introduction by Archibald T. MacAllister
and an Afterword by Edward M. Cifelli

Author: Dante Alighieri
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 10/06/2009
Series: Signet Classics
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780451531391
Language: English