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The Divine Comedy

Pocket
Engelsk
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
  • Forfatter: Dante Alighieri
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 592
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
  • EAN: 9781840221664
  • Utgivelsesår: 2009
  • Bidragsyter: Alighieri, Dante
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Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work.

The Comedy tells of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman through the three realms of the Christian afterlife: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. He presents a vision of the afterlife which is strikingly original in its conception, with a complex architecture and a coherent structure. On this journey Dante''s protagonist - and his reader - meet cha