HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.’Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante’s Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.’Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante’s Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.’Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante’s Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must...
La Divina comedia (italiano moderno Divina Commedia, toscano Divina Comedìa) es un poema escrito por Dante Alighieri. Se desconoce la fecha exacta en que fue redactado aunque las opiniones más reconocidas aseguran que el Infierno pudo ser compuesto entre 1304 y 1308, el Purgatorio de 1307 a 1314 y por último, el Paraíso de 1313 a 1321, fecha del fallecimiento del poeta. Se considera por tanto que la redacción de la primera parte habría sido alternada con la redacción del Convivium y De vulgari...
La Divina comedia (italiano moderno Divina Commedia, toscano Divina Comedìa) es un poema escrito por Dante Alighieri. Se desconoce la fecha exacta en que fue redactado aunque las opiniones más reconocidas aseguran que el Infierno pudo ser compuesto entre 1304 y 1308, el Purgatorio de 1307 a 1314 y por último, el Paraíso de 1313 a 1321, fecha del fallecimiento del poeta. Se considera por tanto que la redacción de la primera parte habría sido alternada con la redacción del Convivium y De vulgari...
La Divina comedia (italiano moderno Divina Commedia, toscano Divina Comedìa) es un poema escrito por Dante Alighieri. Se desconoce la fecha exacta en que fue redactado aunque las opiniones más reconocidas aseguran que el Infierno pudo ser compuesto entre 1304 y 1308, el Purgatorio de 1307 a 1314 y por último, el Paraíso de 1313 a 1321, fecha del fallecimiento del poeta. Se considera por tanto que la redacción de la primera parte habría sido alternada con la redacción del Convivium y De vulgari...
In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to reach Heaven. In this colloquial version of Dante’s masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in his own unique idiom. Lyrical and modern, this remarkable edition yokes two great literary minds, seven hundred years apart, and brings the classic text alive for the twenty-first century.
“The New Life” or “La Vita Nuova” is the first of two collections of verse and prose written by the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri. Since the Middle Ages, Dante has been cherished as the “Supreme Poet” of Italy, and is most widely recognized for his allegorical masterpiece “The Divine Comedy”. “The New Life” contains works written over a period of ten years, from before 1283 to roughly 1293, and is the semi-autobiographical account of Dante’s lifelong love for a woman he called Beatrice. It...
"La Vita Nuova" is the first of two collections of verse and prose written by the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Since the Middle Ages, Dante has been cherished as the «Supreme Poet,» or simply il Poeta, of Italy, and is most widely recognized for his allegorical «Divina Commedia». «La Vita Nuova» contains works written over a period of ten years, from before 1283 to roughly 1293, and is the semi-autobiographical account of Dante's lifelong love for a woman he called...