The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri; Sisson, C. H.; Higgins, David H.

• ISBN13: 9780192835024
• ISBN10: 0192835025
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance.Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of Western Europe and is considered the greatest poemof the European Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

Dante's Geocentric Universe	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
The Hereford 'Mappa Mundi' c.1290	p. 25
Political panorama of thirteenth and early fourteenth century in terms of Guelf and Ghibelline alignments	p. 26
Plan of the Divine Comedy	p. 28
Acknowledgements	p. 34
On Translating Dante	p. 35
A Map of Dante's Italy c.1300	p. 44
The Divine Comedy
Inferno	p. 45
Dante's Hell	p. 46
Purgatorio	p. 197
Dante's Mount Purgatory	p. 198
Paradiso	p. 349
Commentary and Notes	p. 501
Selected Bibliography	p. 737
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