num_pages: 200
description: Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this classic masterpiece, originally published in 1320, read by award-winning narrator Ralph Cosham. No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and of artistry. Dante's theme is universal; it involves the greatest concepts that man has ever attained. Only a genius could have found the loftiness of tone and the splendor and variety of images that are presented in The Divine Comedy. The story is an allegory representing the soul's journey from spiritual depths to spiritual heights. As mankind exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewards or the punishments of justice, it experiences "Inferno" or hell, "Purgatorio" or purgatory, and "Paradiso" or heaven, a vision of a world of beauty, light, and song. Dante's arduous journey through the circles of hell make for an incredibly moving human drama, and a single listen will reveal the power of Dante's imagination to make the spiritual visible. In this edition, "Inferno" is translated by John Aitken Carlyle, "Purgatorio," by Thomas Okey, and "Paradiso" by Philip H. Wicksteed.
language: English
title: The Divine Comedy
titlecomplete: The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy)
characters: Dido of Carthage, Saul (biblical king), Beatrice (Dante), Trajan (emperor), Gaius Cassius Longinus, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Francesca da Rimini, Cleopatra, Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Judas Iscariot, Cerberus, Dante Alighieri, Roland, Charon (mythology), Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Achilles, Mary (mother of Jesus), Brutus, Marcus Junius, Odysseus, Lucifer
genres: Classics, Italian Literature, Fantasy, Philosophy, Religion, Italy, Fiction, Classic Literature, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 146833
series: La Divina Commedia
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Deutsch-Italienischer Übersetzerpreis, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Prêmio Jabuti
category: Tradução, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks