Dante's Divine comedy
Subtitle: Inferno
Publisher: Arcturus
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781848378575
Subjects: Hell; Poetry; Purgatory; Purgatoire; Poésie
Description: "The Inferno is one the most popular and well-known of the books in the Divine Comedy trilogy because of its depiction and understanding of the moral and spiritual pitfalls which still plague us today. This beautifully presented edition is illustrated with astonishing artworks, from Hieronymus Bosch's depictions of a surreal, hellish landscapes and other Renaissance visions of the Last Judgement, to Gustave Doré's intricate engravings of the pilgrim's spiritual travails"--Publisher description.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Dante and the Inferno --; title: Picture credits --; title: The Cantos --; title: The dark forest. The hill of difficulty. The panther, the lion and the wolf, Virgil --; title: The descent, Dante's protest and Virgil's appeal. The intercession of the three ladies Benedight --; title: The gate of hell. The inefficient or indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The shores of Acheron. Charon. The earthquake and the swoon --; title: The first circle, limbo : virtuous pagans and the unbaptized. The four poets. Homer, Horace, Ovid and Lucan. The noble castle of philosophy --; title: The second circle : the wanton, minos. The infernal hurricane. Francesca de Rimini --; title: The third circle : the Gluttonous, Cerberus. the eternal rain. Ciacco. Florence.