Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's Comedy
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780521026659
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Italian; Europe; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Poetry; Dante Alighieri, --1265-1321.--Divina commedi; Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321.--Divina commedia; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry-Ancient, Classical & Medieval; European - General
First sentence: The Comedy is the first-person narrative of a divinely willed journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, a journey from which the author returns to write his poem 'for the good of the world that lives so ill' ('in pro del mondo che mal vive').