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1) The Inferno
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In 1867, when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the first American edition of The Inferno, Dante was almost unknown in this country. The New England poet and educator, who taught Italian literature at Harvard, introduced Dante's literary genius to the New World with this vibrant blank verse translation of the first and most popular book of the three-part Divine Comedy. Expressed in haunting poetry of great emotional power, The Inferno chronicles...
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La "Divina Comedia" es la obra cumbre del poeta italiano Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), y fue completada en 1320, un año antes de su muerte. Es considerada por muchos como la primera gran obra italiana y responsable de estandarizar el idioma italiano.
También es reconocida como una joya de la literatura universal. La "Divina Comedia" narra la historia del propio autor en su viaje a través del infierno, el purgatorio y el paraíso, en búsqueda de...
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Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure or antiquated verbiage with the language of Modern English. This translation could easily be read and understood by today's reader.
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The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri that describes the author’s travels through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). This trio of books, or canticas, is one example of the number three as a theme throughout the work. Each book consists of 33 cantos, which added to an introductory canto, totals 100. Each cantica follows a pattern of 9 phases plus 1 for a total of ten—9 circles of hell plus Lucifer,...
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Divine Comedy volume 2
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The race is on to stop Brandon's murderous quest for earning penance. As the circle of the detectives and FBI closes in, Brandon is compelled to continue his bloody orgy, regardless of the consequences. The exciting conclusion to the two-part Divine Comedy story.
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Divine Comedy volume 1
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What makes someone kill? The age-old question of nature (genetics) versus nurture (conditioning) is still open to debate. What is not open for debate is Brandon's need to kill. But it isn't for revenge or fame or money...it's for penance. He may have had the perfect life of being a model by day and partier by night but underneath he is a tormented, murderous soul. And as the investigating detectives along with the FBI find out, this is a motive enough...
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Divine Comedy volume 1
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Brandon has a seemingly perfect life. Model by day and indulging in all the parties at night. But under the surface, Brandon hides his terrible past...one that he believes he has paid insufficient penance. But as he sees it there is a way out of this predicament and that means he is coming for you, sinners. Part one of two.
8) Paradiso
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The last great literary work of the Middle Ages and the first important book of the Renaissance, Dante's Divine Comedy culminates in this third and final section, Paradiso. The 14th-century allegory portrays a medieval perspective on the afterlife, tracing the poet's voyage across three realms - Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise - to investigate the concepts of sin, guilt, and redemption. Expressed in sublime verse, the trilogy concludes with this challenging...
9) Purgatorio
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“Purgatorio” is the second part of “The Divine Comedy”, Dante’s epic poem describing man’s progress from hell to paradise. Having escaped the Inferno, Dante and his guide, the classical Roman poet Virgil, ascend out of the underworld to the Mountain of Purgatory on an island on the far side of the world. The mountain has 9 terraces, seven of which correspond to the seven deadly sins, and two of which constitute an Ante-Purgatory with the...
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