Dante Alighieri Books For Sale. Professors cook and herzman provide you with an illuminating introduction to one of the greatest works ever written. In a brilliantly constructed narrative of his imaginary guided pilgrimage through the three realms of the christian afterlife, dante accomplished a literary task of astonishing.
He is led by the roman poet virgil down into the nine circles of hell, each of which holds and punishes progressively worse sinners. Dante alighieri's divine comedy, volume 1 and 2 : In 1301, a political dispute lead to his exile from florence.
One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, the divine comedy (or commedia) of dante alighieri is a book for life.
His fame is due eminently to the authorship of the comedìa, which became famous as divina commedia and is universally considered the greatest work written in italian and one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Dante, daniel halpern, james merrill dante's inferno : Italian text with verse translation and inferno: Librairie hachette and cie., paris (1891).