Dante Alighieri

Henry Francis Cary

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Hell, Purgatory, Paradise

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

Gustave Dore

Dante's Inferno

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With His Literary Journal and Letters

Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M. A., Translator of Dante

Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Michelino's frescov t e Dante's Divine ComedyInferno (Hell) Purgatorio (Purgatory) Paradiso (Heaven)First edition to name the poem Divina Comedia, 1555The Divine Comedy is an epic poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.On the surface, the poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven; but at a deeper level, it represents, allegorically, the soul's journey towards God. At this deeper level, Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".The work was originally simply titled Comed�a and the word Divina was added by Giovanni Boccaccio. The first printed edition to add the word divina to the title was that of the Venetian humanist Lodovico Dolce,published in 1555 by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari.

The Divine Comedy: the Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

Gustave Dor

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri.

The Divine Comedy, Complete

The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The narrative describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God. Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy where the poet Virgil is presented as human reason and Beatrice is presented as divine knowledge. Thus, this edition brings to you the annotated translation of the Divine Comedy by Henry Francis Cary for a pleasant enjoyment of the world's greatest classic.

Annotated Classics Edition

The Divine Comedy

Lives of English poets, from Johnson to Kirke White [ed. by H. Cary].

IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I enter'd it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dullness in that instant weigh'd My senses down, when the true path I left, But when a mountain's foot I reach'd, where clos'd The valley, that had pierc'd my heart with dread, I look'd aloft, and saw his shoulders broad Already vested with that planet's beam, Who leads all wanderers safe through every way.

Gustave Doré

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The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise

Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary; with his Literary Journal and Letters. [With a portrait.]

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Henry Francis Cary

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