The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri
By: Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Work titles: Divina commedia
Notes: BAL 12139.

Each vol. is preceded by one of Longfellow's sonnets on translating Dante.

Translation of: Divina commedia.

One of 10 copies privately issued in honor of the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth. Only vol. 1 was ready in time for the occasion, vols. 2 and 3 being issued in 1866 and 1867 respectively. In 1867 the translation was revised and published in 3 vols. with notes, illustrative matter, and an index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Inferno.; title: v. 2. Purgatorio.; title: v. 3. Paradiso.