The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Dante Alighieri (author)

Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He met Beatrice, who was to be his muse, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction in philosophy and theology, and wrote La Vita Nuova. He worked on the Divine Comedy from 1308 until near the time of his death in Ravenna in 1321.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Illustrated edition (29 Nov. 2012)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 752 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780141197494
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.54 x 19.56 cm