Description: To the consternation of his more academic admirers who believe LAtin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved - the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady - he combined them into a great allegory of the soul's search for God. he made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiam, and all his poetry. In Hell, the first of the three parts, the poet is conducted by the spirit of the poet Virgil through the twenty four circles of Hell in the first stage of his arduous The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Hell To the consternation of his more academic admirers who believe LAtin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved - the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady - he combined them into a great allegory of the soul's search for God. he made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiam, and all his poetry. In Hell, the first of the three parts, the poet is conducted by the spirit of the poet Virgil through the twenty four circles of Hell in the first stage of his arduous journey towards God.
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Book Title: Divine Comedy : Volume 1: Hell
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 1950
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Epic, General, Ancient & Classical
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 8.7 Oz
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Dante Alighieri
Book Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
