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Dante's Inferno In Plain and Simple English
| AUTHOR | Alighieri, Dante; Bookcaps; Alighieri, Dante |
| PUBLISHER | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (03/12/2012) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
A journey through the nine circles of hell? Absolutely fascinating-if you can actually understand the words. Dante's Inferno is one of the most haunting and influential works in Western literature, but the medieval Italian style and dense imagery can be hard to follow, even in English translations.
This edition is designed to help. It presents the original text side by side with a modern, easy-to-follow English translation, so you can see what Dante wrote-and what it means-line by line. It's not a summary or retelling. Every passage is here in full, just with a fresh spin to help readers grasp the meaning and emotion without losing the poetry of the original.
Whether you're a student facing a final exam, a reader exploring classic literature, or someone revisiting the Divine Comedy with a clearer lens, this version makes the experience more accessible without watering it down.
It's a powerful journey, and now it's one you don't have to take alone.
A journey through the nine circles of hell? Absolutely fascinating-if you can actually understand the words. Dante's Inferno is one of the most haunting and influential works in Western literature, but the medieval Italian style and dense imagery can be hard to follow, even in English translations.
This edition is designed to help. It presents the original text side by side with a modern, easy-to-follow English translation, so you can see what Dante wrote-and what it means-line by line. It's not a summary or retelling. Every passage is here in full, just with a fresh spin to help readers grasp the meaning and emotion without losing the poetry of the original.
Whether you're a student facing a final exam, a reader exploring classic literature, or someone revisiting the Divine Comedy with a clearer lens, this version makes the experience more accessible without watering it down.
It's a powerful journey, and now it's one you don't have to take alone.
A native of Florence, Dante was deeply involved in his city-state s politics and had political, as well as poetic, ambitions. He was exiled from Florence in 1301 for backing the losing faction in a dispute over the pope s influence, and never saw Florence again.
While in exile, Dante wrote the Comedy, the tale of the poet s pilgrimage through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. To reach the largest possible audience for the work, Dante devised a version of Italian based largely on his own Tuscan dialect and incorporating Latin and parts of other regional dialects. In so doing, he demonstrated the vernacular s fitness for artistic expression, and earned the title Father of the Italian language.
Dante died in Ravenna in 1321, and his body remains there despite the fact that Florence erected a tomb for him in 1829.