The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno. Part 2
Contributors: Charles S. Singleton (Translator)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1084
ISBN-13: 9780691018959
Subjects: Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets; Poetry; Italian; Classics; Continental European; Comparative Literature; Mind, Body, Spirit; Philosophy; Poetry / Single Author / Continental European; Religion
First sentence: Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita: In the fictional time of the journey (the year 1300, as will be disclosed later in the poem), Dante, who was born in 1265, is literally midway in the journey of his life-on good scriptural authority (Ps. 89[ 90 ]:10): "Dies annorum nostrorum in ipsis septuaginta anni."